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“The Funeral of Austerity”– that’s how the FT referred to the IMF’s last round of annual meetings. In a radical departure from past approaches, the fund’s glossy publications encouraged countries
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“The Funeral of Austerity”– that’s how the FT referred to the IMF’s last round of annual meetings. In a radical departure from past approaches, the fund’s glossy publications encouraged countries

Millions of students pursue degrees and careers in economics every year, and most start from a sense of deep curiosity. But nearly all face doubts at one point or another.
Although gender equality in employment is among the Sustainable Development Goals for South Asia, progress is hard to observe. Determined to explore why female employment levels remain low and stagnant,

“Money is pre-eminently a sanctuary, a haven for resources that would otherwise go into more perilous uses.” Gurley & Shaw Cryptocurrencies, which first emerged in the wake of the global

“The most significant economic event of the era since World War II is something that has not happened.” Hyman Minsky, 1982 By Elham Saeidinezhad | In the 1945 film It’s A Wonderful

After the Great Financial Crisis, Minsky rose to fame. But few people grasp the breadth and depth of his work beyond the “Minsky Moment”. If that’s you, Daniel Neilson’s recent

You work all the time. But what is work, really? And how has that changed? In Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, anthropologist

It seems only realistic to say that we’re doomed. We can no longer picture things turning out okay, and that’s the very problem. In From What Is to What If,

By Diego Castañeda Garza Some scholars would argue that the world was first globalised as far as five centuries in the past when the European conquests of the new world

By Sergio Chaparro Hernández The unfulfilled promise of a just global order The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone is entitled to a social and international order in
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