Economics

Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

Economists dive into the financial impact of Christmas trees—real and artificial alike—on the U.S.

Media attention to Ivy League schools distracts from the much more important—and undersupported—public university system

The U.S. will see “fewer emergency room visits, fewer asthma attacks” and will save money if it cuts carbon emissions, a new Union of Concerned Scientists analysis says

Supreme Court justices declined to decide whether the Biden administration is placing too high a value on the cost to society of spewing carbon and other planet-warming gases

Claudia Goldin mined 200 years of data to show that greater economic growth did not lead to wage parity or more women in the workplace

Calculations determining the climate damage of greenhouse gas emissions—called the social cost of carbon—will be considered in federal agencies’ budgets, permitting decisions and, eventually, government purchases

Our financial systems need to be overhauled to avoid the kind of social-media-fueled bank run that killed Silicon Valley Bank

A Nobel laureate in economics explains how artificial intelligence will affect inequality—and how solutions such as a shorter work week might mitigate its negative effects

A tight labor market offers financial hope to many low-income workers but only if our government rethinks its hard limits for benefit programs

There is no evidence for Republican claims that considering the environmental impacts of investment is bad for the poor—part of the party’s growing opposition to environmental, social and governance investments

Researchers calculated that high-emitting countries, including the U.S., should pay $192 trillion in compensation to low-emitting nations