Last year’s winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, given in memory of Alfred Nobel, were Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. The researchers were honored for ...

Dismantling racial inequalities that have plagued the United States since its founding will boost economic growth and create new jobs for everyone, top advisers to President Joe Biden said Tuesday, ...

The International Monetary Fund supports an increase in the U.S. federal minimum wage to reduce poverty and inequality, but sees an argument for phasing the higher rate in slowly to gauge the impact ...