economics

Inflation has eased, but Trump’s agenda could send prices soaring again. Photo: Bloomberg
Panorama

Trump’s impossible economics

With Donald Trump apparently preparing to follow through on his promises of mass deportations, tax cuts, and tariffs, it is only a matter of time before his supporters are disappointed. There...

Claudia Goldin, winner of the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Photo: Reuters
Panorama

Goldin took women's careers from economic sideshow to mainstream

Claudia Goldin has been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023.(X/@NobelPrize)
World+Biz

Nobel Economics Prize 2023 awarded to Claudia Goldin for work on women's labour market outcomes

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen looks on as she holds a roundtable with India's technology leaders on the sidelines of G20 finance ministers' meeting on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, February 25, 2023. REUTERS/Samuel Rajkumar/File Photo
World+Biz

In economics, women's voices still struggle to be heard

Demonstrators wait in line after entering the Presidential Secretariat premises, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka July 10, 2022. File Photo: REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
Global Economy

Sri Lanka marks independence anniversary amid economic woes

Nobel prize winner economists Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig.
Thoughts

What we can learn about the current crisis from the works of the 2022 Nobel Prize winners in Economics

This year’s Nobel in economics is a warning for bank management!
Economy

This year’s Nobel in economics is a warning for bank management!

Photo caption: In this new environment where security of supply has become paramount, the design of value chains will have to minimise the risk of weaponization. Photo: Bloomberg
Panorama

Economics in the new age of national security

Md Rashedur Rahman Sardar. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

Should engineering universities teach economics?

Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

Economic bridge building

Robert Skidelsky. TBS Sketch
Thoughts

What killed macroeconomics?

Members of the Bangladesh team at the World Economics Cup. Photo: Courtesy
Pursuit

Team Bangladesh 8th in World Economics Cup

Alicia Sasser Modestino. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

Diversifying the Dismal Science