Today’s economists rarely consult Adam Smith’s 1776 The Wealth of Nations, however celebrated it is for revealing the workings of the market. Contemporary practitioners are often more at home with ...

Is climate change a crisis demanding immediate aggressive action to smash down carbon emissions, or is it an annoying inconvenience that can be dealt with slowly over decades? Most climate scientists ...

Modeling of technological change has been a major empirical and analytical problem for many years. One approach to modeling technology is learning or experience curves, which originated in techniques ...