Economist

Paul Romer was once the most popular economist in Silicon Valley. The theory that helped him win a Nobel Prize - that ideas are the turbo-charged fuel of the modern economy - resonated deeply in the global capital of ideas that create…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is under increasing pressure to demand another nationwide lockdown in India as the overwhelmed health system struggles to fight a devastating second wave of Covid-19.However, a member of Modi's economic advisory…

The American business profession has begun to grapple with the diversity problems in its field. In June, as protests against Black Lives Matter raged in the US and then around the world, the American Economic Association - the voice of the…