Financial Markets

February 24, 2016 – Soaring flows of data and information now generate more economic value than the global goods trade.

January 16, 2020 – How could Earth’s changing climate impact socioeconomic systems across the world in the next three decades? A yearlong, cross-disciplinary... research effort at McKinsey & Company provides some answers.

March 22, 2023 – “Let’s stop putting our heads in the sand like ostriches, pretending that problems don’t exist,” says... an economist noted for his early warning about the global financial crisis. “If you don’t address them individually and collectively, eventually they will overwhelm us.”

February 16, 2023 – Regaining historical rates of productivity growth would add $10 trillion to US GDP—a boost needed to confront workforce... shortages, debt, inflation, and the energy transition.

February 15, 2023 – A leading economist uses a historical lens to gain insights into the economic consequences of pandemics, likely trends in wealth... and globalization, and whether current economic turbulence signals the start of a new era.

February 9, 2023 – What’s the fate of globalization? New research breaks down changes in the global flows that bind us together—and what those changes... mean for our collective future.

January 12, 2023 – Concentration in the origins of traded products is widespread, prompting questions about whether to diversify or decouple.

November 15, 2022 – Economic and political turbulence have prompted speculation that the world is already deglobalizing. But the evidence suggests... that global integration is here to stay, albeit with nuance.

January 12, 2022 – “William Blake talked about the dark Satanic mills, these inhuman pieces of tangible capital. Intangible capital is in some... ways about what makes us human. It’s about ideas, and it’s about relationships. It’s about expressiveness. Some people may ask whether we should be making that the basis of the economy. But we would argue that this is actually making those things that matter to us as humans more central to our thriving.”

July 28, 2021 – In addition to the moral argument, the former White House economic adviser explains that gender diversity is “a matter of human... capital. It’s a matter of talent. It’s a matter of the evidence mounting over time.”

May 12, 2021 – The Nobel Prize–winning economist talks job loss and creation after the pandemic, plus what economic researchers should be addressing... today.