Economy

As China looks set to overtake the US as the world's largest economy, a multipolar world can only be good for democracy.

Certain sectors of the Ecuadoran government would like to become less dependent on natural resource extraction and instead create a digital- and knowledge-based economy.

The historical cost of building our postal network, its unique characteristics and efficiency, the nefarious efforts to privatize and cripple it, and the economic and personal costs of losing …

In this interview, Bard College's Levy Economics Institute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou evaluates the impact of the Troika's austerity policies in Greece since their imposition in 2010.

A new study confirms that wealthy individuals and business interests control US politics. Citizen movements need to use more powerful, effective forms of nonviolent and political action in order …

The enormous trade deficit is doing incredible damage to our economy, and our country's elites used to care about that.

Voluntary part-time employment has been rising, which is a predictable effect of the Affordable Care Act.

Ukraine's “turn to the West,” together with the effects of austerity, will deindustrialize Ukraine and turn it into an agricultural appendage of the EU.

Peter Van Buren has been traveling the ever-expanding, ever-rustier Rust Belt taking the temperature of a land with a significant fever. Here's his account.

Updates on Alabama prison/slave labor; automobile irrationalities; the California drought; and more.