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ABCDE 2014 is intended to be a stock-taking of the foundations and methods of development economics. Over the last two decades, development economics has risen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One evening in December, after a long day working from home, Jennifer Drouin, 30, headed out to buy groceries in central Amsterdam ...

The description of economics as “the dismal science” could be assumed to be due to the subjects it studies and the predictions it makes. The study of financial crises is rarely the cause of joy.

The competing theory, associated with the mid-20th century English economist John Maynard Keynes, argues that market economic activities are not inherently benign and can even be downright dangerous.

What’s the theory behind my economic forecast? In simple language, it’s complicated. My forecast is judgmental rather than coming from an econometric model. I begin with a “bottoms-up” prediction of ...