The Latest Breaking News from John Maynard Keynes

We can all fantasise about what we need to make ourselves satisfied — and it doesn’t have to be a fortune

Do you ever get the feeling there is something fundamentally wrong with how we live?

Employers are not going to simply give workers more free time. If working hours are to change, it’s in the hands of the federal government.

While this week’s Jobs and Skills Summit is being held under different circumstances from its 1983 Hawke-Keating predecessor, the point of both is the same. That is, to generate consensus not just around the distribution of wealth but also its production. The popular truism that you need to grow the…

Gross domestic product remains the predominant measure of progress across the world, it might be time to change it, write Paul Allin, Diane Coyle and Tim Jackson

Absolute idleness is both harder and more rewarding than it seems.

The Air India asset sale sets a dangerous precedent as it could result in liabilities being left on citizens

Long hours and more childcare buck the economist’s forecast of working less, but studies show children are better adjusted

His political "revolution" sputtered. Then his disciples found cryptocurrency. Now, they want to force Washington to finally grapple with his strange ideas.

Our own crisis of truth is responsible for some of the world’s biggest problems, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

John Maynard Keynes famously wrote that “practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” Yes: new trends in economic thinking can be wrong. That’s what seems to be happening now. The rapid rise of inflation over the…