The nasty reactions were far outnumbered by people who said they had always assumed that “The Bell Curve ... from what one authority thinks was a lower-bound estimate of $80 billion in 1980 ...

This would, they estimate, boost U.S. factory jobs by 2.7 million. That's a lot of jobs and would significantly add to manufacturing's total, now about 12 million.

The position that Richard Herrnstein and I took about the role of race, IQ and genes in The Bell Curve is contained in a single paragraph in an 800-page book. It is found on page 311, and consists ...

Countries’ commitments to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions can have important implications for their economies. Data since the 1800s reveal that the amount of CO2 emissions generated for a given ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As investors we put a lot of weight on the bell curve, perhaps too much weight, and certainly more than we ...