Economy

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.

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.

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

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.

Of all the things they've endured, Detroit residents can now add grotesque racial insensivity from a newspaper editor to their list.

Any progressive candidate for president in 2016 should be calling for a 10-10-10 plan: 10 paid sick days, 10 paid holidays and 10 paid vacation days for all workers.

For most of our lives, we've been taught that hard work pays off, but most of the super-rich don't make their money by working hard, and more.

Private enterprises, the military and the super-rich are among those buying politicians and hurting the working class.

A federal judge dismissed the claims of a former bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who says she was fired for refusing to change her …