Best will establish Jordanian Economic Policy Research Initiative funded by Columbia University

“You can’t work out crises like these with those culpable in power,” says Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist who helped Bolivia overcome hyper-inflation in the 1980s. (Sachs says his comments should not be construed as an endorsement of “U.S.-led regime change.”)

The economics of Medicare for All championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders are actually quite straightforward. Under what advocates call "M4A," health care coverage would expand while total spending on health care -- by companies, individuals and the government -- would decline because of lower costs. More would be paid through

Economist Bernard Salanié, from Columbia University, reviews the Trump administration’s first commercial decisions as it looks to raise tariffs.

As Jeffrey Sachs, an economist at Columbia University, recently wrote, our country is in the throes of three “interrelated epidemic diseases, notably obesity, substance abuse (especially opioid addiction) and depression.” In his chapter on America in the “The World Happiness Survey 2018,” Sachs writes “Indeed, while America’s income per capita has increased markedly

David Alfaro Serrano was awarded the 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Award in the social, behavioral and economic (SBE) sciences. The grant was awarded for a proposal titled, “The Direct and Indirect Effect of Innovation Subsidies.”

American prosperity since World War II has been built upon science and technology breakthroughs spurred by a powerful innovation system linking the federal government, business, academia and venture capital. U.S. innovation policy has been successfully emulated in Europe and Asia, most recently by China…instead, American prosperity should be assured by

The United States was born in a revolt against the tyranny of King George III. The Constitution was designed to prevent tyranny through a system of checks and balances, but in President Trump's America, those safeguards are failing.Donald Trump holds the grandiose belief that only he should rule America. Unchecked

“The exchange rate is one of many instruments China could use” to counter U.S. tariffs, Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning Columbia University Economist and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, said in a July 17 interview. “They would make a big effort to say what they are doing is not

Economist John Asker, who is an expert in antitrust and competition economics, is joining Columbia after serving four years at the University of California, Los Angeles.