Economic policies have profound effects on the tensions within and between countries — tensions that can lead to war,” renowned progressive economist James K. Boyce remarked to me recently ...

History regularly shows that basing economic policy upon ideology, hunches, and gut instinct, rather than on sound economic ...

As concerns mount over the fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump’s global tariff war, which began after he took office in January, leading American economists interviewed by The Chosunilbo ...

If you want the big picture in my judgment, after World War II, George Kennan taught us about containment: “We’re going to contain the Soviet Union.” The irony, which the philosopher Hegel ...

The second world war wreaked devastation, but America had emerged as a geopolitical and industrial power. The ructions of the 1960s were still a decade ahead; the Depression’s privations were 15 ...

However, many economists warn that those tariffs could backfire – badly – by raising prices on American families, killing jobs and setting off a global trade war.

An extreme, protracted trade war between the U.S. and China brings profound risks that could plunge millions of people into poverty, economists say. U.S.-China trade war threatens to upend the ...