Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Human discovery has been driven by a desire to sort and simplify the world. But our ability to navigate the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is fair to say that faith in economists, and economic forecasts, has taken a hit in recent years. Part of ...

Edmund Phelps is a knotty riddle for taxonomists. In the present day, with thinkers consigned to “left” or “right” on the basis of a few well-worn clichés, some would be tempted to class him as ...

Martin Sandbu sets out an ambitious policy agenda to recreate an economy where everyone feels they belong. Readers of his “Free Lunch” columns in the Financial Times will not be surprised by his ...

Beyond benchmark measures like employment, growth, and inflation, economics encompasses the full spectrum of humanity. It affects—and reflects—everyone. Central bankers may be most acutely aware of ...

Economic Model Predictive Control (EMPC) represents an evolution of traditional control strategies, where the primary objective is to directly optimise an economic cost function rather than merely ...

"Our conviction that the recession has been delayed but not derailed is still running at a high level," Rosenberg said. A recession is likely to hit the US economy in 2024, a new economic model ...

Germany’s economic model is known for close relations between bosses and unions; the Mittelstand, the country’s world-leading manufacturing firms; and the political system’s federalism, which spreads ...

Twenty years ago Joshua Cooper Ramo, a consultant, first wrote about the “Beijing consensus”. The Washington consensus of financial liberalisation, floating currencies and openness to foreign capital ...