In most my dealings with questions of economic development I run across men and women who view themselves as pragmatic doers, totally immune from anything quite as impractical as academic research.

When millions of homes and thousands of businesses lose access to electricity, it becomes obvious that energy is critical to the economy. We understandably focus on the crisis at hand. However, there ...

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James Morley receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Welcome to our series on economic theories that are changing the way we think. Today, James Morley explains how the very concept of ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- How can you know if a macroeconomic theory is a good one? The answer is that it’s surprisingly hard. Because macroeconomics doesn’t work quite like science, policy makers and ...

I n the epilogue of their blockbuster book Mostly Harmless Econometrics (2009), Josh Angrist and Steve Pischke write, “If applied econometrics were easy, theorists would do it.” As academic jokes go, ...

ABCDE 2014 is intended to be a stock-taking of the foundations and methods of development economics. Over the last two decades, development economics has risen ...

China’s five-year plans promote the symbiotic development of technology and institutions. Since 1953, China’s five-year plans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One evening in December, after a long day working from home, Jennifer Drouin, 30, headed out to buy groceries in central Amsterdam ...

IF WE are to understand the impact on India of foreign economic ideas we must first recognize how immune the Indian economy is to influence from any source, including that of the Indian Government.

Today’s newsletter isn’t about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), which has been the subject of a lot of back-and-forth in the economics world over the past couple of days. Suffice it to say that I ...