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On Wednesday, Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt and economics professor Richard Holden gave a joint address to the National Press Club in Canberra. Their key message? Australia isn’t spending enough money on university research.

Germany's new minister of economy wants more natural gas power stations and electricity subsidies. But is that enough to boost the economy?

Now that inflation is back within the target range, suddenly the RBA has rediscovered that it is supposed to also care about full employment

From Marx to Piketty, a sprawling but marvellously lucid overview of capitalism’s naysayers

We recognise extreme poverty as ruinous, but this turbo-charged affluence is deeply damaging too. Treat it as such, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the New Economics Foundation

Letters: David Redshaw and Andrew Webb respond to an article by the bank of England’s Clare Lombardelli

My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world’s most reputable economics journals to study citations, which are where academics cite previously published research in their papers. We found papers whose lead author had a…

Imagine having to pay A$39 dollars a day to park your car while visiting your sick child in hospital.

Trump’s tariffs aren’t just bad economics—they’re a rejection of abundance, prosperity, and capitalism itself.

It would be open to the UK, Norway and Switzerland, and give governments more bang for their buck as the continent rearms, says economics commentator Simon Nixon

Deputy governor Clare Lombardelli calls for more women and people from poorer backgrounds to take key subject