What makes for a good economic system? How do we fix flaws in the system like inequality? The winners of the most recent Nobel Prize in Economics attempted to answer these questions: James Robinson of ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Every day, billions of dollars flow through crypto systems—used to pay remote workers, settle international trades and back online commerce. This is no longer an experimental playground for tech ...

“Systems change” has become a ubiquitous topic of interest for anyone serious about addressing our multiple social-environmental-economic-governance crises. Yet for all its ubiquity, the term tends to ...

Ukraine and Russia once shared a Soviet system but are now moving in opposite directions. One is becoming more aligned with ...

December 6 - There is substantial effort being devoted to finding ways to transition the global economy to address climate change, the loss of nature, and pollution and waste, while continuing to seek ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voters walk into a polling station in Cary, N.C., during the primary election on March 3. (Jonathan Drake / Reuters) (Jonathan ...

This program area addresses the social and behavioral sciences—including anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology—to understand and address complex relationships among ...

Autonomous economic agents are software agents that act on behalf of their owners with limited or no interference, specifically focused on generating economic value. These agents operate independently ...