Tag: economy

• The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich

  August 24, 2020

  Thirty-two-year-old French economist Gabriel Zucman scours spreadsheets to find secret offshore accounts. At that moment, Zucman was also pondering whether to pursue a doctorate. He was already skeptical of mainstream… more ›

• Turkey’s Erdogan announces discovery of large natural gas reserve off its Black Sea coast

  August 22, 2020

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the discovery of a large natural gas reserves off the Black Sea coast, days after he promised “good news” that would usher in… more ›

• Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?

  May 24, 2020

  IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an… more ›

• The 90% economy that lockdowns will leave behind

  May 3, 2020

  Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it,… more ›

• The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance

  August 28, 2019

  Following the bank bailout and the Global Financial Crisis, anger towards the financial system reached new heights. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745333502/the-heretics-guide-to-global-finance more ›

• The horrific consequences of rubber’s toxic past

  July 24, 2019

  The black-and-white photograph shows a man, perched on the edge of a wooden deck, looking down at two objects. At first, you can’t take in what they are. In the… more ›

• The new left economics: how a network of thinkers is transforming capitalism

  June 25, 2019

  After decades of rightwing dominance, a transatlantic movement of leftwing economists is building a practical alternative to neoliberalism. By For almost half a century, something vital has been missing from… more ›

• The Self-Destruction of American Power

  June 16, 2019

  Sometime in the last two years, American hegemony died. The age of U.S. dominance was a brief, heady era, about three decades marked by two moments, each a breakdown of… more ›

• The Autonomous Economy

  June 9, 2019

  We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and our… more ›

• Salvage Accumulation, or the Structural Effects of Capitalist Generativity

  May 29, 2019

  How is it that capitalism is at once so generative, flexible, and creative, and, simultaneously, so effective at doing certain things, such as making rich people richer? I address this… more ›