Why do some countries become rich while others stagnate? And can you predict which countries become wealthy in advance of them actually increasing their collective GDP? The answer may lie in the ...

I’ve written before about how economies can be thought of as network-based supercomputers that physically rearrange atoms — what some academics mean by the term “information” — to generate value. As I ...

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Economics is in the midst of a revolution – its biggest in over a century. There are new insights into the workings of the economy. “Complexity Economics,” as Beinhocker of McKinsey calls the new ...

Researchers identify three growth poles: East Asia, Eastern Europe, and East Africa "Countries that have diversified their production into more complex sectors, like Vietnam and China, are those that ...

New economic complexity rankings find stability amidst swirling pandemic tradewinds The researchers place the diversity of tacit knowledge—or knowhow—that a society has at the heart of its economic ...

Discover why economics struggles with human unpredictability and market forecasting. Learn how these challenges impact ...

In 2006, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York started to worry about the overheating US housing market. Concerned that the bubble might burst, they used their best model to predict what ...

The role of physicists in finance is changing, as quantitative trading opens an exciting alternative to traditional financial modelling, and data science lures would-be 'quants' away. But the void is ...

CONSIDER THE task economists have set themselves. The global economy is the outcome of near-constant interaction between billions of unique individuals. To attempt to model even a small corner with a ...