A group of researchers examine the communication barriers impacting social science professionals’ credibility and how people make sense of their expertise.
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Partisan bias doesn’t stop with voters. When Republicans hold the White House, Republican economists consistently overshoot on growth forecasts.
The English cleric and economist’s name is used to malign critics of progress. But historical context sheds a different light on Malthus’ ideas, a scholar argues.
For the first time, women lead Australia’s key economic institutions. The moment matters because research shows women think about the economy differently from men.
Mainstream economics has been complicit in the climate change crisis as it falsely treats climate change as a mere side-effect of production or a minor aberration.
In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes famously predicted that within a century, the normal workweek would decrease to 15 hours. Why was he wrong?
Andrew Brimmer, the first African American on the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve, helped develop the blueprint for the Central Bank of Sudan.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, politicians from a range of parties and countries have reported losing respect for experts.
Men were significantly less likely to express confidence in the Federal Reserve and optimism about the economy when monetary policy information came from a woman versus a man.
Economic growth of countries needs many ingredients. Getting the recipe just right is important.
Economists shape the world in many ways, but some of their conclusions are counter-intuitive to say the least.
Ironically, it is the “ivory-tower” economists who tend to do the most interesting, and valuable, work.
Pitting health against the economy is a false dichotomy.
Biden proposed $1.9 trillion in new coronavirus relief spending to help with the economic fallout of COVID-19. Four economists have a few ideas for him.
Two-thirds of those surveyed want it linked to wages.
Leading Australian economists in four countries have signed an open letter calling on the national cabinet to think carefully before easing restrictions ‘for the sake of 'the economy’.
For economics to play a more helpful, critical role, it must abandon blind faith in the free market and embrace the social, historical, and environmental context in which economics actually happens.
Venezuela recently devalued its bolivar by 95 percent to tame rabid hyperinflation that has been sending prices on everyday goods through the roof. If history is a guide, it won’t work.
The methods used to measure gross domestic product are being criticised for excluding the unpaid work done by women.
Economists try to create and use maps to navigate the world of human choices. But in some ways, these maps are limited.
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford
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Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of Finance, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Resident Physician in Emergency Medicine, Brown University
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Reader in Social Politics and Media, Loughborough University
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professeur Stratégie, Entrepreneuriat & Innovation, TBS Education
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Full Professor of Marketing, iaelyon School of Management – Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
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Professeur Stratégie & Management de l'Innovation, TBS Education; European Academy of Management (EURAM)
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Professor of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Professor of AI and Public Policy, University of Salford
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Professor of International Political Economy, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Enseignante - chercheuse, ISTEC
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Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University