Dani Rodrik explains why strong productivity growth in the sector is as welcome as it is unexpected.

A series on the politics of production.

An interview about the new parameters of climate politics, with the breakdown of global consensus. As the EU re-opens coal-fired plants and the US shuts down wind farms, China gouges the earth to chur...

China’s role in European manufacturing is larger, more hidden and more concentrated in strategic sectors than trade figures suggest.

A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...

The European debate about China is obsessed with production. It spends remarkably little time thinking about demand.

The competitiveness case against the EU Green Deal is weaker than often claimed, but the political backlash reflects real and geographically concentrated adjustment pressures

This report by Todd Tucker and Oskar Dye-Furstenberg examines US manufacturing’s evolving role, highlighting its continued importance for innovation, productivity, and exports despite a declining shar...

The war in Iran has sent oil prices skyrocketing. Daniela Gabor and Benjamin Braun argue the ripple effects and states (non)responses to the crisis represent a

Climate finance is considered essential to the Global South’s green energy transition, yet little is known about how financial capitalism shapes access to it or the factors determining domestic rec...

Abstract. What explains rising inequality after 1980? Explanations describing immediate causes, like skill-biased technological change, financialization, o

How do financial markets influence the green transition? Advocates of harnessing markets to foster the green transition claimed that market rationality is a reliable mechanism to channel investment...

Stacie E. Goddard and Abraham Newman’s neo-royalist framework not only captures the logic of Viktor Orbán’s rule, but also goes a long way toward explaining why it is unraveling.

I guess we are on a history of thought week. I wrote about Adam Smith being misinterpreted. Now it is about Schumpeter, who is often celebra...

The French national assembly has adopted several recommendations on how the EU can green its monetary policies, including researching dual interest rates.

The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

A tribute to the founder of the Parisian Regulation School of heterodox economics, with its striking combination of elite statistical training, rich conceptualizations and long-range economic history....

Public climate finance in the third decade of the 21st century is awkwardly positioned between the Wall Street Consensus (WSC), state capitalism, and climate ju...

Hoe Trumps aanvallen op de Federal Reserve het debat over centrale bankonafhankelijkheid en democratisering van monetair beleid herdefiniëren.

Het aantrekken van voldoende migranten is noodzakelijker én lonender dan Mark Elchardus en andere migratiesceptici ons willen doen geloven.