Economics

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Is it worth it? the economics of same-sex marriage

Douglas W. Allen | 02 January 2012 |

tags: economics, same-sex marriage

The institution of marriage must be fundamentally redefined to accommodate same sex couples, says a Canadian economist.

What is #OccupyWallStreet hoping for?

Max Torres | 14 November 2011 |

tags: economics, hope, Occupy Wall Street

The protest movement is a sad parody of the notion of progress through materialism.

Back to basics: a Vince Lombardi moment for the economy

| 26 October 2011 |

tags: economics, family, philosophy

An essay on the four principles of all successful American economic policy - and the philosophical A-team behind them.

Ten policies for renewing family life

Phillip Longman | 17 October 2011 |

tags: demographic dividend, economics, family

The state of the family in many advanced societies is unsustainable. Which public policies could reverse this decline?

The New Holy Wars

G. Tracy Mehan III | 06 September 2011 |

tags: economics, environmentalism, religion

America's leading secular religion was once economics. Has it now become environmentalism?

Will women stock exchange traders rescue Wall Street?

Denyse O'Leary | 23 August 2011 |

tags: economics, global financial crisis, neuroscience

The new science of neuroeconomics is making big claims. Can they be justified?

Household economics 101: human capital

Michael-Burkhard Piorkowsky | 07 June 2011 |

tags: economics, housework, human capital

If other social institutions had to perform the tasks of the home, society would immediately collapse.

As the family goes, so goes the economy

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 May 2011 |

tags: economics, marriage, poverty

There is an intimate relationship between our income wealth and our sexual culture.

An own goal for unwary governments

Stefan Szymanski | 28 April 2011 |

tags: economics, soccer, sport

A leading sports economist is sceptical about the value of hosting major events as a way of boosting local economies.

For-profit microcredit is not the enemy

Blake Robinson | 06 January 2011 |

tags: economics, finance, microcredit, subprime crisis

Moves to rein in the practice of extending microcredit to the poor for profit may be misguided.

Economies rise and fall with the family

Dainius Kreivys | 19 November 2010 |

tags: economics, family policy, Lithuania

Governments cannot afford to keep treating family values as an optional extra, says a government minister.

“Economics is not a morality play” And so?

Alejo Jose G. Sison | 01 October 2010 |

tags: business ethics, economics, recession

An ethicist challenges a leading economist's claim that the market is necessarily amoral.

Let’s hear It for Estonia and Iceland

Vincenzina Santoro | 17 August 2010 |

tags: economics, Estonia, EU, Iceland

Two small European countries which have battled their way out of economic holes are setting an example for the US and the rest of Europe. 

America divided: the politics of inequality

Godfrey Hodgson | 20 July 2010 |

tags: economics, unemployment, US

The entrenchment of inequality in the United States damages the economy, degrades politics and corrodes the American dream.

Fatal attraction: democracy and the welfare state

Samuel Gregg | 22 June 2010 |

tags: democracy, economics, Global Financial Crisis, welfare state

Expansive and expensive welfare programs have brought European social democracies to the verge of catastrophe. Will democracy hamper economic reform?

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