A growing chorus of technologists and futurists now argue that scarcity is ending. The future may be post-old-scarcity but it will not be post-scarcity.

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

Discover four key economic concepts: scarcity, supply and demand, costs and benefits, and incentives. Learn how they affect consumer choices and financial decisions.

Is it actually accurate to describe one generation as having “ruined” the economy or is that simply a diversion from the true forces that influence our financial lives? When a 21-year-old recently ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson have been awarded the 2024 Nobel memorial prize in economics for their influential work on how institutions shape economic development. Some would say ...

Zachary Karabell is an author and investor and writes “The Edgy Optimist” on Substack. The “affordability crisis” has become the economic touchstone of the day — widely touted, frequently debated and ...

POSITIVE THINKING can help people who are feeling down. Politicians, too, have long understood that gloomy expectations can become self-fulfilling. In the late 1970s, as America grappled with an ...

Significant problems are confronting the Xi Jinping regime as the third plenum of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party meets this week to discuss the direction of the economy. The ...