Many of us have been conditioned to glorify more—more degrees, more skills, more certifications. But what if the real power lies not in adding, but in pausing? In taking a moment to examine the ...

The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to a trio of researchers Monday for their work on how cycles of technological innovation feed economic growth. Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University, Peter ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate and sustain economic growth,” an award committee member said. By Eshe ...

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific innovation, coupled to market ...

Fears of a recession are back on investors’ minds. But predicting the onset of an economic downturn, let alone the length and severity of one, is difficult even for the experts. As a rule of thumb, ...

The European Central Bank is likely to maintain steady interest rates in the months ahead, according to incoming Governing Council member Alvaro Santos Pereira, who described himself as “definitely ...

During her residency in emergency medicine, Archana Shrestha, MD, MS, would fall asleep at stoplights on the drive home after night shifts. Archana Shrestha, MD, MS “It happened a few times,” she ...

I wrote my first Econoclast column for this magazine 15 years ago, in the spring of 2010. The economy at the time was recovering from the deepest recession since the 1930s. As I argued in the column, ...

Charlie Mackesy's "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" inspires reflection on the importance of unlearning ingrained beliefs and biases. Unlearning is presented as a process of growth, not ...

New research shows models can be directly edited to hide selected voices, even when users specifically ask for them. A technique known as “machine unlearning” could teach AI models to forget specific ...