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Net foreign assets of Sri Lankas commercial banks have turned positive in the first quarter of 2023 official data show, as banks paid down foreign credit lines.

May 09, 2023 // The economic and moral case for rich countries to help pay for the green transition in poorer countries is strong. Yet green investment can have unintended side effects and undesirable byproducts which must be acknowledged and addressed to meet climate goals, writes Andrés Velasco.

The Nobel Prize for Economics, say economists, is the most prestigious award anybody can receive in the field of economics.

A deep dive on the development of the dollar system.

Sri Lanka government and government guaranteed domestic currency debt broadly considered in debt review has shrunk by a 19.6 billion US dollar equivalent as the economy inflated in the worst currency crisis in the history of the islands intermediate regime central bank.

With globalization under increasing scrutiny, national governments are poised to exert more power over markets.

Yves here. Get a cup of coffee. This is another meaty talk with Michael Hudson, this time focusing on his classic Super Imperialism. Hudson has an updated and expanded version set to go to print soon. Oscar Brisset: Welcome to the first event of the Oxford Economics Society for this academic year. I’m Oscar, the Co-President of our society, and I’m glad to welcome you back for another term of exciting discussions. Although we were hoping last term to be back in-person by January, due to th...

Share: Image: French President François Mitterrand (second from right), leader of the French socialist party, with Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and Helmut Schmidt at the Versailles G7 Summit of 1982. Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained? Editors’ Note: This is an adapted chapter from a forthcoming book, Market Economies, Market Societies: Interviews and Essays on the Decline of Social Dem...