Articles tagged with economy

Degrowth theory, whose supporters push policies to reduce economic activity and end our obsession with GDP, is gaining momentum in Europe and Canada. Will the movement reach U.S. soil?

In a discouraging post mortem, it turns out neither the U.S. economy nor the environment really benefited from the 2009 “cash for clunkers” car-trading scheme.

In a podcast conversation with law and economics professor Gillian Hadfield, she expounds on ways to bring more legal services to Americans without requiring vast new armies of expensive lawyers.

Why a globalized U.S. economy requires new legal infrastructure devised and controlled by innovators (who will probably be something or someone other than law firms or lawyers).

Contrary to popular belief, people who live longer are healthier and have fewer medical bills. Obese people, however, are living longer with health care costs increasing at an alarming rate. So efforts to prolong vitality are not, in themselves, an economic Frankenstein.

The next time the U.S. looks at economic stimulus, two University of Delaware economists suggest, it ought to consider offering a hefty discount on every retail purchase.

Destitute spots hosting high-profile sporting events can at least burnish their international reputations even if they are hemorrhaging money, right? Well, probably not.

A cheap euro, plus the “short work” plan, allowed the Germans to make lemonade from lemons. But tomorrow may be sour.

Don’t spend that World Cup money just yet, South Africa. Statistics show that the World Cup isn’t always an economic boon for host countries.

Think tanks on both ideological sides agree — legalizing undocumented workers in the United States would be an economic boon.

Not surprisingly, bankruptcy filings are on the rise and likely to increase. Is the 2005 bankruptcy reform act helping, hindering or neutral in this instance?

A stimulus package launches with low hopes for qualitatively changing the pace of car buying and little real expectation of cleaning up the air.

Author Steven Greenhouse’s Rx for better workplaces: tougher enforcement and friendlier policies.

Venture capitalist Woody Tasch has a down-to-earth approach — literally — for fixing what’s eating the economy.

Long associated with less-developed economies, various efforts to hook smaller bits of First World money to First World needs are afoot.

As more evidence accumulates that big law firms are facing major retrenchments, the suggestion that evolutionary change may be afoot grows, too.

From past debates on privatization to new proposals to tap benefits in midlife and shifting the federal focus from the old to the young, experts of various stripes find fertile ground in debating the future of the program.

Many men want to have achieved something before marrying, and the corresponding lack of wealth seems to be a factor in who gets hitched.

Our spinogram allows you to watch the U.S. economy change before your very eyes.

Update: A political economist argues our high levels of consumer debt derive more from political decisions than from economic conditions.

Amid severe economic gloom, some top executives take a pay cut, but it’s unclear how widely the salary correction will spread.

Waiting for the Byrd to squawk, or how to tell if Congress and the White House are serious about fixing the economy.

The poor are fleeing our cities, but life is not always greener, even when affordable housing comes with a two-car garage.

The economic opportunities found in inner cities should attract private investment, although a nudge from government can overcome traditional inertia.

Why a low-cost program to educate employees about company ownership could produce huge financial benefits for the country.

If we’re going to rescue Wall Street, let’s bail out the industrial Midwest, too.

How do we protect the markets from their own overexuberance? By signaling that future failures won’t get government bailouts.

Since the 1970s, the cry has been to ‘Save Our Cities’ — often from the seductive call of the suburbs. But now our oldest suburbs themselves are under siege from the same problems.