Trump’s commerce secretary is preparing to mess with the country’s economic statistics.

Economics, culture, and media. Economics, culture, and media. Economics, culture, and media. Got it?

Donald Trump acknowledged that his tariffs will likely make things worse, not better.

A new study suggests global warming’s effect on GDP has been vastly underestimated. Will it finally break through the religion of infinite growth?

Claudia Sheinbaum’s response to Trump’s threat of tariffs revealed truths that the president-elect doesn’t want Americans to know.

As Nobel season intersects with hurricane season, we’re getting a potent reminder of the problems with cost-benefit analysis and letting markets direct our lives.

You’ve surely read that tariffs would just tax regular Americans. You may not have read how they’d work to make the rich richer.

Tim Jackson found unlikely fame by arguing that slower growth will actually make us happier—and more prosperous.

Trump has been ripping off hardworking people for decades. Now he’s chosen a running mate who’s made millions pretending to be a hillbilly. They’re the perfect people to lead the party of grift.

Trump a populist? Populism came about to lower tariffs!

Yes, they want to cut taxes on rich people again. It’s an obsession that goes back to the ’80s—the 1880s.

Yes, the United Auto Workers lost last week in Tuscaloosa. But you probably haven’t heard about the recent union victories in the region.

First, Trump slapped tariffs on China. Now Biden has increased them. Is this wise economic policy or just political one-upmanship?

There are Democratic jobs and Republican jobs, apparently, and guess which are growing faster.

Congress approved the construction of the Yazoo Pumps more than 80 years ago. They might finally be built—and disproportionately benefit white landowners.

But, for now, it’s all we've got.

A left-right convergence around economics is possible—and the side that takes the lead on this will reap major rewards.

Javier Milei claims to speak to his dead pet through a medium. He has proposed allowing organs to be bought and sold on the free market. And yeah, that hair.

The Harvard economist’s legacy is her economic history of women in the workforce. But her work on income inequality was also pathbreaking.