Explore how political economy examines the impacts of economic theories, like capitalism, on real-world interactions and policies globally.

According to a national poll, five percent of American adults strongly agree with the statement, "When I think about our political and social institutions, I cannot help thinking 'just let them all ...

Two MIT economists were among those awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for their decades of work illuminating the relationship between political institutions and economic prosperity.

There are moments in political life when rhetoric stops being merely provocative and begins to test the boundaries of ...

Listen to part one of this conversation here. Nate Silver says that risk-takers are controlling society. Silver is an election forecaster, and admits that political institutions don’t take as many ...

Last month, the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three scholars, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, for “studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” ...

While a majority of people express a commitment to most of our social and political institutions and the democratic form of governance enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, there are those who relish ...

As Americans digest the result of this week’s presidential election and wonder about the future of their country and its politics, they must reckon with the fact that political polarization seldom ...

The left and right don’t agree on much, but many on both sides do agree on one thing: the system is broken. Over the past decade, anti-system political movements have surged, from Brexit in 2015 to ...