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In 1937 the English economist Joan Robinson proposed that “when capitalism is rightly understood, the rate of interest will be set at zero and the major evils of capitalism will disappear”. John Maynard Keynes, who had taught Robinson, suggested something similar a year earlier in slightly more qualified and technical…

The former governor of India’s central bank now steers a tricky course between supporting free markets and campaigning against unfettered risk-taking

Editorial: For the first time since Covid, businesses are most to blame for the UK’s high inflation rates. But ministers are doing little about it

Recurring struggles over the borrowing limit undermine the status of the US as an economic superpower.

The clock is ticking on the development of policy to meet this huge societal challenge, says Larry Elliott, the Guardian’s economics editor

The idea that tech will free us from drudgery is an attractive narrative, but history tells a different story

A new entrant in the anti-neoliberalism genre fails to land any blows.

Having been grossly misled in the referendum, Britons’ anger is mounting as the reality of our plight becomes clear

Research shows that working fewer hours can be far more productive. Richard Godwin clocks on to find out if it’s true

The national debt is much like the weather. Everybody worries about the topic, but nobody wants to do anything about it.

A First Nations Voice is fundamentally a moral question and a symbol of recognition, but it is also economic and political.