China has undergone one of the most dramatic economic transformations in history. Once a closed-off, struggling nation, it is now the world’s second-largest economy and is on track to become the ...

An image shared on Instagram purportedly shows an infographic created by the World Economic Forum. "What will our diets look like in 2030?" reads the text at the top of the image in the Aug. 29 post .

Ariel images of The Line's construction site, released in April 2025. NEOM Economic Struggles. Saudi Arabia has long been exposed to the boom-and-bust cycles tied to oil prices.

Daunton has written a sweeping history of international economic cooperation and of the meetings and institutions through which it is organized, arguing that, to sustain international cooperation, ...

Influential Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana famously warned that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Judging by Donald Trump’s economic platform in his ...

When it comes to assessing the strength of the U.S. economy, observers tend to rely on comparisons to recent history. For example, Americans recently saw 27 consecutive months of unemployment ...

In the third volume of his epic “Civilization and Capitalism,” published in 1979, Braudel explored the forces that made one city at a time the economic center of the Western world, from Venice ...

Time to show your economic history skills based on what we’ve covered in Planet Money Summer School 2024: An Incomplete Economic History of the World. Make it through the quiz, and receive a ...