Our trade negotiators weren’t suckers, as Trump seems to believe. They just weren’t working for the country’s blue-collar workers. We will have to see who they work for in a Trump administration

While ensuring quality in these professions is important, there surely are ways to guarantee competence that don’t discriminate to the same extent as our current regulations

Trump has proposed large infrastructure spending and also tax cuts that will hugely increase the deficit. Both offer real benefits, although with substantial risks

Offshoring manufacturing may have hurt many working people in America, but professionals and intellectual property have been robustly protected

Janine Jackson interviewed Dean Baker about the debt boogeyman

When the issue is trade deals, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Times throws out its usual journalistic standards to push its pro–trade deal agenda

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gave his first major economic address on Monday. Most of the speech was devoted to putting forward…

If the EU leadership continues to set policy based on folk wisdom from their parents rather than serious economics, the hardships among the population will continue

If the EU leadership goes the route of tit for tat and tries to punish Britain, Brexit will be the first round of a very unhappy story.

Technology is supposed to be about making our lives better. An important way in which it does this is by reducing the number of hours that we have to spend working