James Morley receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Welcome to our series on economic theories that are changing the way we think. Today, James Morley explains how the very concept of ...

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When millions of homes and thousands of businesses lose access to electricity, it becomes obvious that energy is critical to the economy. We understandably focus on the crisis at hand. However, there ...

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Economic uncertainty, like we are living through right now, can make regular purchasing decisions challenging. Even more so decisions around big life moments, like changing your job, buying a house or ...

Economic theory allows individuals to study the monetary effects of social and government policies. Nations are built upon several economic principles. Minimum wage is a common economic principle ...

Today’s newsletter isn’t about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), which has been the subject of a lot of back-and-forth in the economics world over the past couple of days. Suffice it to say that I ...

Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on how mistaken assumptions by top U.S. policymakers have worsened the financial crisis. It has been three years since the worst financial collapse ...

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