Economics

Drug policy continues to fixate on symptoms rather than the actual disease

Fear of hidden costs pushes us to avoid “free money” or suspiciously good offers

Employees are working remotely, and office buildings are standing empty, inspiring some cities to work through the challenges of converting these structures into new apartments

Nearly half of residents lost income after a hurricane, a new study shows. Most were low-paid hourly workers in storefront shops

Both climate-driven disasters and the clean energy transition pose risks for the world’s largest financial institutions

Millions of human-made objects travel at high speeds in low-Earth orbit, polluting space and increasing the chance of collision with satellites and other spacecraft

Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

Economists dive into the financial impact of Christmas trees—real and artificial alike—on the U.S.

Media attention to Ivy League schools distracts from the much more important—and undersupported—public university system

The U.S. will see “fewer emergency room visits, fewer asthma attacks” and will save money if it cuts carbon emissions, a new Union of Concerned Scientists analysis says

Supreme Court justices declined to decide whether the Biden administration is placing too high a value on the cost to society of spewing carbon and other planet-warming gases

Claudia Goldin mined 200 years of data to show that greater economic growth did not lead to wage parity or more women in the workplace