Economics

The problem isn’t trade or corporations—it’s the monopolization by professional groups of high-profit services.

For some nations, trade and cooperation are becoming less attractive. But the world needs more coordination, not less.

Public-private partnerships can solve the planet’s most vexing problems—but they need to focus on systemic change rather than single issues to succeed.

The agreement may help him get reelected, but it’s only a truce, not a free trade deal.

Capitalism is still the best way to handle risk and boost innovation and productivity.

Communism and democratic socialism won’t heal today’s political divisions. But social democracy—which helped ward off extremism following World War II—could.

Vaclav Smil’s encyclopedia on growth and new releases on economics in hard times and diplomacy in war zones.

With the United States now a net exporter of oil, and with Iran’s economy battling historic levels of inflation, Trump held a more favorable set of cards than his predecessors did.

Experts expect growth to rebound, but many of their projections are built on shaky foundations.

Several important events occurred this year, but few did anything to significantly alter global trends.

From turmoil in northeastern Syria to censorship in China, here are the stories that caught our readers’ attention this year.

On the Kazakh border, a new city grows.

But by rushing to meet his December 2020 deadline, the British prime minister makes it that much harder to get a good deal.

At least the United States will avoid more tariffs, but if the deal actually happens it will skirt the real issues and have little to do with Trump’s campaign promises.

Eager to be seen as doing more than taking down the president, Speaker Pelosi readies a “yes” vote on USMCA.