\nArtificial intelligence threatens to disrupt the professions as it has manufacturing. Frank Pasquale argues that law and…

Colonial Americans were enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. As this exotic wood became fashionable,…

\nNew technologies are shaking the foundations of traditional finance. Leading economist Eswar Prasad foresees the end of…

Presents an analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the…

With the advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology, designer babies have become a reality. Francoise Baylis insists that…

Friction, the force that resists motion, has shaped technological progress for millennia. Jennifer Vail shows how the quest…

Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new…

The greatest dilemma our planet faces is the tradeoff between poverty alleviation, inequality reduction, and climate change.…

Rebecca Kobrin chronicles the rise and fall of Jewish immigrant banking in America. With few credit options, Jewish migrants…

This work looks at the reasons behind the success of Silicon Valley when compared to other industrial centres such as Route…

\nYakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic…

Consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How do…

Central banks are supposed to stabilize markets, yet decades of mounting central bank power have seen wave after wave of…

Nelson and Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime. They marshal…