Annie Fadely is a senior associate at Civic Ventures and a producer of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast. Fadely says it's "obvious" that economics has a gender bias that's rooted in the field's ...

French philosopher Voltaire famously quipped: “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” Something similar can be said of modern monetary theory, also known as MMT, because it may be ...

Most economists subscribe to a belief in “positive economics,” which means that economic theory flows from economic data. Thus, all theory can be tested for ...

When millions of homes and thousands of businesses lose access to electricity, it becomes obvious that energy is critical to the economy. We understandably focus on the crisis at hand. However, there ...

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