As geopolitical tensions rise, fears of ‘deglobalisation’ have taken centre stage. The US–China trade war, Brexit, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have led many to
The starkly different paths of economic development followed by China and the West leading to the Industrial Revolution is often being attributed to environmental factors.
Manufacturing is a locus of innovation, yet standard industry data show manufacturing productivity stagnating in the US. This column argues that standard measurements understate true
Surveys with information provision experiments, a form of randomised control trials, have become popular in economics (for review articles, see Fuster and Zafar 2023 and