While many countries across the globe have experienced strong economic growth and improvements in human development outcomes over the last quarter of a century, natural resources continue to be ...

The award is shared by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and James Robinson of the University of Chicago for their research on the... Nobel Prize goes to 3 economists who study the wealth and ...

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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gabriel Zucman, author of The Hidden Wealth of Nations, about the leaked Panama papers and what they say about the practice of hiding money offshore worldwide. He's ...

What is the cause of the terrible calamities which are now falling on the civilized world? Surely it lies in the fact that the economic development of mankind has outstripped the moral development.

According to a seemingly trustworthy person whose name I’ve long since forgotten, the amount of new human knowledge that we generate in one year is equal to the sum total of all knowledge generated ...

Close to one third of the wealth of low-income countries comes from their “natural capital” which includes forests, protected areas, agricultural lands, energy and minerals, according to a new World ...

The Changing Wealth of Nations (CWON) 2021 offers a comprehensive wealth database from 146 nations which spans from 1995 to 2018. The wealth data includes a range of assets. For example, one can ...