Christopher Sims, the John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and a Nobel laureate whose work ...

IN the global tobacco leaf trade, a handful of multinational corporations have historically shaped the rules of the game. For decades, the buying, processing and export of tobacco leaf across Africa ...

Utopian and Scientific is a condensed and accessible account of the historical development of socialism.  It outlines the essentials of Marxist historical materialism, political economy and philosophy ...

THE Caribbean Development Bank has taken a cautious stance on calls for a regional “blue tax” on cruise ships, reasoning that ...

Since the late 1980s, extreme poverty has declined sharply, life expectancy and schooling have increased, and electoral democracy has expanded. However poverty reduction has slowed in recent years, ...

David Engerman’s latest book is a thrill to read for any practitioner of development economics, but especially those who have studied or worked in South Asia. The Yale University professor of ...

Tech Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the Pacific NW tech community. Submissions: [email protected] by Lisa Stiffler on Nov 21, 2025 at 9:40 am November 21, 2025 at 4:53 ...

The economics of the software development business have always been kind of weird. Some things with software scale spectacularly, and some things scale very poorly. Pricing is always a challenge; it’s ...

Why doesn't a rising tide raise all or most boats? That is: how does wealth manage to get "sequestered" with the wealthiest? [In theory], they don't put it in big money rooms like Scrooge McDuck: they ...

8 November 2024 - There are 32 countries classified as Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs): 16 are in Africa, five in Asia, eight in the Commonwealth of Independent States and South-Eastern Europe ...

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