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The global goods trade will shrink next year in a downturn reminiscent of previous recessions, Oxford Economics said, in a worrying forecast for Asia’s export-dependent economies and beyond.

The report from Irwin Mitchell and the Centre for Economics and Business Research champions the potential for the sports economy

Austan Goolsbee, an economics professor at the University of Chicago who is a frequent commentator in opinion columns and television appearances, will succeed Charles Evans.

A federal jury in Alabama has awarded Auburn University professor Michael Stern $645,837 in damages after finding Stern's former dean violated his First Amendment rights by punishing him for criticizing the high number of athletes in the school's public administration program in 2014. Stern was removed as chair of the…

A study by Women in Banking and Finance and the London School of Economics focuses on finance professionals in the U.K.

A new biography tells the story of the economist’s early life and career.

The treasury secretary's partnership with her husband has hugely influenced her rise to the most powerful woman in U.S. economic policymaking history.

MP claims lobbying investigation damaged his reputation unfairly

Arthur Laffer, the Reagan-era guru of trickle-down economics, was unchastened by the deficit explosion back then, which effectively disproved his theory that cutting taxes on the rich would increase government tax revenue. According to a recent Washington Post writeup, Laffer continues to be unchastened now, even as Britain reels from…

China's capital warned on Monday that it was facing its most severe test of the COVID-19 pandemic, shutting businesses and schools in hard-hit districts and tightening rules for entering the city as infections ticked higher in Beijing and nationally.

In Stern v. Roberts, a jury just held that Auburn University had retaliated against Prof. Michael Stern, a tenured economics professor, based on his speech; the jury awarded $145K in compensatory damages and $500K in punitive damages. Here are the factual allegations from the earlier opinion denying summary judgment: In…