Urbanomics

A number of economists led by the Nobel laureate Gary S Becker have vehemently argued in favor of improving school education standards by in...

It does not require rocket science to make money in a boom. But making money in a bust... well, you will need to turn to Goldman Sachs to le...

Harvard professor Robert Putnam has claimed that his studies show that ethnic diversity lowers trust in the community. The Financial Times ...

Ezra Klein of The American Prospect, analyzes the findings of the newly released Commonwealth Fund survey on health care attitudes and expe...

There is an interesting study by Austrian economist Halla Martin, Divorce and the excess burden of lawyers , which explores how divorce proc...

The Guardian identifies What single breakthrough would best advance the fight against climate change? . It presents the opinions of 21 promi...

The successes of economic growth clusters like Silicon Valley, Route 128 (in Boston) and the Shenzen-Guangdong Special Economic Zone (SEZ) i...