The Cleveland Arcade decorated with American flags for the U.S. Bicentennial in October 1976 in Cleveland. (Howard Ruffner/Getty Images) Table of Contents In July, the United States will celebrate ...

Christopher Sims, the John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and a Nobel laureate whose work transformed how central banks and government leaders understand the economy, ...

When the Stanford biologist and science writer Paul Ehrlich died last week at 93, the obituaries that followed were a fascinating exercise in editorial balance. As usual, most hesitated to speak too ...

America's shift from energy importer to exporter reshapes how oil price spikes from Middle East conflicts affect different regions, industries and income groups.

Generations of scholars come and go; a few, including Roger Garrison, make their mark on the field and inspire future ...

By Roberta Lexier For early twentieth-century Marxists, fascism was, explains Alberto Toscana in his 2023 book, Late Fascism, “intimately linked to the prerequisites of capitalist ...

The Nobel laureate’s work transformed how central banks understand cause and effect in the economy.

Six CFR fellows assess the geoeconomic fallout of the war in Iran, and they analyze the challenges that the United States and the world will have to navigate as the conflict enters its third week.

A Bank of America Institute analysis of 2,000 years of GDP data reframes American exceptionalism — and points toward what ...

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 ...

In an environment in which information is abundant but understanding is scarce, some books stand out because they fundamentally change the way we think about society, technology, history, and human ...