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A trio of US economists including Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke won this year's Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for research on how propping up failing banks can stave off an even deeper economic crisis. Bernanke, along with Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig won the 2022 prize for their…

A trio of U.S. economists including former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke won this year's Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for laying the foundation of how world powers now tackle global crises like the recent pandemic or the Great Recession of 2008.

The winner, or winners, of this year’s Nobel Prize for economics will be announced Monday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm

This gonzo economic theory continues to live on, notwithstanding its repeated failures

Mental health is the state of mental well-being that contributes to individual and population health. This state of mental well-being sustains national output and labour force productivity. But governments around the world haven’t been investing resources into addressing mental ill-health. This is despite acknowledging that economics and mental health are…

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says he won't cause a deep recession but that "pain" is necessary to fight inflation. To curb the largest price increases in four decades, the US Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates this year. "The Fed is doing a bad job because they don't…

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander didn't just topple one hurdle. She smashed through several.

Trussonomics is the sharp end. But other, structural factors are also driving a systemic assault on working people, says economics professor Daniela Gabor

Choosing a college or university course is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. What you study and where you study it will shape your career, your friends and peers and, quite possibly, the rest of your life.

Here's the central riddle of U.S. politics since the Great Depression:

Letters: The Tory party’s reliance on trickle-down economics will leave society poorer, says Richard Tudway of the Centre for International Economics. Plus letters from Malcolm Stanton, David Plumpton and Joan Friend