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Economics Professor Richard Holden says Australia can stay on its path of 'economic exceptionalism' but reform will be necessary.

Prof. Dutrenit, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico, was delivering the annual Christopher Freeman memorial lecture at the 20th international conference of the Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence-building Systems (Globelics) at the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT) on Friday.

Editorial: Economics is a religion where rhetoric persuades voters to believe bad policies can have good results

In a historic moment for the Catholic Church, women are to vote for the first time at the Synod of Bishops, later this month. Annette Young asks Kate McElwee, the executive director of the Women's Ordination Conference, if we are moving closer to the possibility of having Catholic women priests.…

The recognition of Goldin’s pay gap analysis is empowering for all of us, but depressingly, her gender is still more newsworthy, says journalist Josie Cox

Economic history has long been chronicled through a male lens, emphasizing the contributions of men and their viewpoints. For proof, just look to the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. It’s been awarded to 90 men since 1969 – and just three women.

In an astonishing act of timing, Harvard University’s Professor Claudia Goldin published a paper on Monday titled Why Women Won. It mapped milestone moments in women’s rights in the United States from 1905 to 2023.

Women stirred up a “quiet revolution” in the labour market, according to Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is the 2023 winner of the Nobel prize in economics for her analysis of gender differences in the labour market, particularly the persistent problem of the…

In an exclusive interview, Sheryl Sandberg talks to Sheila Flynn about how Claudia Goldin, the Harvard economics professor who won the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday, has spent decades doing work on women’s labor that “really matters”

Research by Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin unearths the myriad factors behind the gender pay gap.

Harvard professor becomes only the third woman to win the prestigious prize