What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?
UNTIL 1700 the world economy did not really grow—it just stagnated. Over the previous 17 centuries global output…
UK Firms Cut Jobs, New Orders as Economy Struggles to Grow
Britain’s private sector lost momentum in July as the fallout from the Labour government’s first budget and a…
Inside Economics: Why inflation is back and why the Reserve Bank can probably ignore it
The reason I ask is that the discretionary spend in New Zealand is very subdued (who would be…
China’s high-stakes shift • Inside Story
China’s fastest-growing industries are being told to curb their aggressive price competition. Beijing has evidently decided to confront…
Forest loss and uncertain economic gains from industrial and garimpo mining in Brazilian municipalities
Econometric framework The workflow is outlined in detail in Fig. S10 of the Supplementary Information. To evaluate the economic and…
Sustainability reporting assurance and corporate employment structure: empirical evidence from Chinese listed companies
Literature review The literature relevant to this paper can be categorized into two main streams: the first focuses…
The Biggest Foreign-Policy Books of Summer 2025
At Foreign Policy, summer isn’t just about beach reads (though we’re fond of those, too). It’s also a…