Economics Focus
Making less with more
America's productivity growth has slowed. Does that matter?Apr 12th 2007
Articles from previous editions
Smaller shares, bigger slices
Has globalisation hurt workers in rich economies? The IMF wades inApr 4th 2007
Silent orchestration
Can record companies act in concert, even without agreeing to do so?Mar 29th 2007
A stitch in time saves nine
Chinese interest rates are still far too lowMar 22nd 2007
Small loans and big ambitions
The commercialisation of microcredit and what stands in the wayMar 15th 2007
Anatomy of a hump 
What caused the Great Inflation? And what might bring it back?Mar 8th 2007
Labour bares its gums
The not very frightening tightening of rich countries' labour marketsMar 1st 2007
Carry on speculating
How traders have been triumphing over economic theoryFeb 22nd 2007
The art of the possible
A new study picks over the delicate political economy of freeing marketsFeb 15th 2007
A fluid concept
Just about everyone agrees that there's a lot of liquidity about—whatever it isFeb 8th 2007
Momentous modelling
When terrorists strike, what happens to investment and jobs?Feb 1st 2007
Reading the tea leaves
Comparison with China shows India's boom may be less impressive than it seemsJan 25th 2007
The great unbundling
Does economics need a new theory of offshoring?Jan 18th 2007
What the World Bank knows
...And what it only thinks it knowsJan 11th 2007
Shifting sands
Income volatility is less of a problem than America's Democrats think Jan 4th 2007
Rate of decline
What the consolidation of American banking has meant for its smallest operatorsDec 19th 2006
Shots across the Stern
Was Sir Nicholas's big report on climate change egalitarian, inegalitarian—or both?Dec 13th 2006
The petrodollar peg
America should worry more about fixed exchange rates in the Gulf than the gently rising Chinese yuanDec 7th 2006
The oracle becomes less oracular
How central bankers communicate, clearly and not so clearly, with the outside worldNov 30th 2006
Rocks below the surface
Democracies get rid of tariffs, but they may encourage subtler forms of protectionismNov 23rd 2006
Third thoughts on foreign capital
If it doesn't kill you, financial globalisation will make you strongerNov 16th 2006
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Sticky situations
Economists are learning more about a fundamental question: how often do prices change?Nov 9th 2006
Winds of change
Why economists love empiresNov 2nd 2006
Hard currency, tight spot
The euro is a cause of Italy's problems, but also a balm for themOct 26th 2006
Profits and prophecies
Chinese companies earn higher returns than is commonly claimedOct 19th 2006
Home truths
How much does housing wealth boost consumer spending?Oct 12th 2006
Taped
How some rich countries' over-regulation has hurt their productivityOct 5th 2006
Curve ball
A link between unemployment and inflation is fashionable againSep 28th 2006
Dolling up the dole
A better way to help America's joblessSep 21st 2006
A seedbed of revolution
Africa needs markets, as well as technology, for a green revolution to take rootSep 14th 2006
Dismal science, dismal sentence
The efficient markets hypothesis can land you in jailSep 7th 2006
On the hiking trail
Globalisation is generating huge economic gains. That is no reason to ignore its costsAug 31st 2006
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