The Pandemic Crisis and the Policy Reaction

On Tuesday, the Senate Banking Committee will hold hearings to consider the nomination of Kevin Warsh to be the next Fed chair. His confirmation will likely be delayed until the Justice Department’s investigation into Jerome Powell is fully resolved. Despite this, Mr. Warsh’s ans ...  Show more

Evening newspapers, like vinyl records and rotary phones, are fading relics, all victims of the smartphones into which humanity is gradually burying its consciousness. But once, they were a vibrant part of daily life. Growing up in Dublin in the 1970s and 1980s, there were two ev ...  Show more

Les années 1970 constituent une rupture dans l’histoire économique et politique du monde. Sur le plan géopolitique, elles témoignent d’un mouvement qui initie la fin de la guerre froide. Parallèlement, la construction européenne s’élargit et s’approfondir à mesure que l’Europe se ...  Show more

L’épisode du Coronavirus, que certains qualifient de pire crise depuis 1929, est aussi inattendu qu’inédit. Inédit puisque pour la première fois il ne s’agit pas d’une crise due à l’éclatement au grand jour de fragilités internes du système économique mondial, mais d’une crise pr ...  Show more

James Meadway returns to discuss his predictions for the world economy in the year ahead, and why the notion of the polycrisis - while in some ways useful - fails to reckon with the fact that in a world of increasingly frequent severe weather events, climate disasters, and greate ...  Show more

The Soviet Union is one of the most historically significant economies to understand, not only because it was the home to some of the most controversial economic practices ever, not only because it was a nation that altered world politics for the latter half of the entire twentie ...  Show more