Seriously. How are you feeling about your economic situation? Because the unemployment rate is still near generational lows, inflation is down to 3.2%, and gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a ...

Economic development isn’t deals or job counts; it’s building lasting local capacity for resilient communities.

A tax wedge is the difference between before-tax and after-tax wages. It also refers to the market inefficiency that is created when a good is taxed.

Radhika Balakrishnan is a volunteer for the Democratic Party in the US because of the upcoming elections. Economics and economic policy need a rethink. This is clear from the scale of inequality, ...

Discover how coincident indicators reflect current economic conditions, their role in analyzing business cycles, and their impact on understanding economic trends.

While many countries across the globe have experienced strong economic growth and improvements in human development outcomes over the last quarter of a century, natural resources continue to be ...

Different ways of measuring the economy’s unused capacity, or slack, can result in varying inflation forecasts. Estimates suggest that direct measures of labor market tightness, such as the ratio of ...

This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of ...

At a conference at Boston College, philosophers, developmental psychologists, educational researchers, and practitioners from around the country gather to discuss how to measure a young person's ...

Once upon a time, in a land where we now live, citizens sought to improve their communities through something called “economic development.” They formed committees of local business and government ...