The Latest Breaking News from Economics

Other lives: Pioneer in the field of Islamic economics who set up the Islamic Foundation in Leicester

Last year Miran, 41, was a virtual unknown. Suddenly the "Mar-a Lago accord" author’s ideas are reshaping the economy.

The Prime Minister is expected to urge the public to reject Reform UK’s calls to use ‘family finances’ as a gambling chip on ‘unfunded’ tax cuts

The prime minister’s intervention came as a stunning new poll saw Reform’s lead over Labour grow to nine points in what a leading pollster describes as ‘an uncontrollable political earthquake’

On Wednesday, Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt and economics professor Richard Holden gave a joint address to the National Press Club in Canberra. Their key message? Australia isn’t spending enough money on university research.

Germany's new minister of economy wants more natural gas power stations and electricity subsidies. But is that enough to boost the economy?

Now that inflation is back within the target range, suddenly the RBA has rediscovered that it is supposed to also care about full employment

From Marx to Piketty, a sprawling but marvellously lucid overview of capitalism’s naysayers

We recognise extreme poverty as ruinous, but this turbo-charged affluence is deeply damaging too. Treat it as such, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the New Economics Foundation

Letters: David Redshaw and Andrew Webb respond to an article by the bank of England’s Clare Lombardelli

My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world’s most reputable economics journals to study citations, which are where academics cite previously published research in their papers. We found papers whose lead author had a…