Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind ...

A household is economically resilient if it manages a shock with minimal reduction in current and future well-being. This paper develops the first measure of resilience consistent with this simple, ...

The conflict in the Middle East is plunging an already fragile Iranian economy into freefall. The International Monetary Fund estimates that the Iranian economy will shrink by 6.1% in 2026. The regime ...

Abstract: Incorporating reliability constraints in economic dispatch is challenging considering massive system states resulting from random component failures and renewable energy (RE) uncertainties.

Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, says the economy is ticking along. In private she and her government are more concerned. Mexico’s economy grew by 0.8% in 2025, Ms Sheinbaum’s first full year in ...

The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE is pleased to host the 2nd Workshop for Early Career Women in Economic Geography and Spatial Economics (WECW-EGSE) on 16–17 March 2026. The workshop ...

The U.S. economy, hobbled by last fall’s 43-day government shutdown, advanced at a sluggish 0.7% annual rate from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Friday in a big downgrade ...

The U.S. economy grew at a slower rate than previously thought in the fourth quarter after the Commerce Department released its first revision of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the ...

The US economy was on shaky footing even before President Donald Trump plunged the United States into a war with Iran, a battery of new data released Friday showed. At the end of last year, economic ...

A commercial ship is viewed anchored off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, in the Strait of Hormuz, Dubai on March 2, 2026. Around two weeks into the American and Israeli war with Iran, the ...

President Trump is facing an economic squeeze as the Iran war drives up oil prices and the U.S. job market sputters. Friday brought a double dose of bad economic news for Trump: an unexpected loss of ...

The job market is weakening, inflation is still too high, and we’re at serious risk of a once-in-50-years oil shock. This is almost the exact set of conditions that triggered the stagflation of the ...