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More than 100 economists including Thomas Piketty and Jayati Ghosh publish open letter ahead of country’s 19 November election

Artificial intelligence taking all of our jobs was perhaps not the headline Rishi Sunak was hoping for at the end of the two-day, AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park. But once you invite Elon Musk onto the stage, you somewhat surrender your news cycle to his whims.

Is Oppenheimer a movie for our time, reminding us of the tensions, dangers and conflicts of the old Cold War while a new one threatens to break out?

In 1937 the English economist Joan Robinson proposed that “when capitalism is rightly understood, the rate of interest will be set at zero and the major evils of capitalism will disappear”. John Maynard Keynes, who had taught Robinson, suggested something similar a year earlier in slightly more qualified and technical…

The former governor of India’s central bank now steers a tricky course between supporting free markets and campaigning against unfettered risk-taking

Editorial: For the first time since Covid, businesses are most to blame for the UK’s high inflation rates. But ministers are doing little about it

Recurring struggles over the borrowing limit undermine the status of the US as an economic superpower.

The clock is ticking on the development of policy to meet this huge societal challenge, says Larry Elliott, the Guardian’s economics editor

The idea that tech will free us from drudgery is an attractive narrative, but history tells a different story