A Case of the British Disease?

Prime Minister tells country Donald Trump ‘miscalculated’ by escalating tariff attack

An eye-opening glimpse at the links between two congressional committees and more than 100 defense contractors, consultants, and lobbyists.

My book, The Inclusive Wealth of Nations, was published last week. Here I explain where the idea came from, what I mean by inclusive wealth, and why I think we need to look beyond GDP when thinking ab...

Christine Lagarde and Scott Bessent spoke only after Washington’s historic intervention

How big was China's economic miracle? A major revision to the Penn World Tables has changed the story, and we're not convinced it got it right.

Climate change politics in the developing world remains understudied, despite the region's acute vulnerability and centrality to climate futures. This article synthesizes emerging research across...

The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI's brain. Type a name and see how strongly the leading AI models recognize it. Are you in the weights?

By the 1840s, Ireland had one of the densest networks of microfinance institutions in the world to help people adapt to economic change

By the 1840s, Ireland had one of the densest networks of microfinance institutions in the world to help people adapt to economic change

Exercising power without resorting to war could be Beijing’s ultimate show of strength

Britain's statistics office said on Friday that an operational error in May and early ​June has led to reduced response rates for its main survey ‌of unemployment and the labour market.

Some lessons from Ireland in the nineteenth century

Claude Fable 5 is a version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos, an AI program which caused a stir among technology, finance, and government leaders.

Liu, a Hangzhou-based contractor at a large Chinese internet firm, says her employer began quietly firing contractors in March after it ordered staff to use AI tools including AI agent OpenClaw, which saw lightning-fast adoption in ​China this year.

Historical data does not offer much insight about how our predecessors navigated profound change

A comprehensive analysis of Silicon Valley pro-extinctionism.

Economists say Ireland’s GDP ‘impossible’ to predict because of cross-border flows from multinationals

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...

How competing definitions of growth are shaping contemporary economic debate

Europe’s biggest tech players debut EuroOffice, a sovereign suite designed to challenge Microsoft 365’s dominance.

Ireland’s housing crisis in historical and international perspective

Of course, the potential for AI to transform mankind’s earthbound condition for good exists alongside its potential for devastation

At a time when evictions have surpassed 19th-century levels, it is ill-advised to suggest lessons can’t be learned from the past

The pontiff also warned of a "new digital slaveries" in his first encyclical since becoming Pope last year.

In a country where life chances are so unfairly stacked, the Reform party and its billionaire backers can only grow more powerful