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The availability of the internet has become absolutely critical in today’s economy.

While the decade presents a hope of prosperity, it also brings a multitude of threats. The way in which the scales tip will define not just the outcome of this decade but many more to come. As it did on October 24, 1929, when Wall Street came tumbling down pulling many livelihoods along with it.

Andy Fitch talks with William D. Nordhaus, laureate of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics and Professor at the Yale School of the Environment.

I T ONCE SEEMED possible that covid-19 might deliver a softer blow to poor economies than rich ones. Instead, the virus seems likely to set the emerging world back in its quest to attain advanced-economy incomes. Real GDP per person in America shrank by about 4% in 2020, only about half a percentage point more than the average across emerging markets, in purchasing-power-parity terms. But projections made by the IMF in April suggest that American growth is set to outpace that in the emerging world this year; with the pandemic still ravaging places like Brazil and India, poor-country growth ...

Altercation: The Piketty Impact French economist Thomas Piketty in 2019 While reading Brooke Jarvis’s fascinating New Yorker essay about issues associated with the ending—rather than the extending—of life, I came across this passage: “Of all the forms of inequality,” Martin Luther King, Jr., said in 1966, by which time the divide was entrenched, “injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman.” Even in modern American cities, people born into poor neighborhoods can expect to live as many as thirty years fewer than people who are born in afflue...