Smart Money: why do lotto players ignore the odds? Economics has a surprising answer

William D Nordhaus and Paul M Romer awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics

Growing number of firms finding principle doesn’t have to be at expense of business

Bad week for internet overlords marked by undercover exposé and €4.3bn fine

No need to worry about economy overheating but we need to look past corporate taxes

US economist wins for work in behavioural economics – how human traits affect markets

Exhibit A: Tory boy Elliott Van Emden who can barely disguise his glee when describing his job of evicting tenants

The legacy of Apollo House is that the public now knows change can occur

On Christmas Day, 1991, Gorbachev ended the USSR and Boris Yelstin took power

Following Uber ruling, there is an opportunity for unions to design apps for public

If you had described your iPhone in 1976, Friedman would not have understood you

Opinion: Universities should train people for life, not just match them to jobs

It is time for Plan C, which could mean central banks giving every adult citizen a lump of money to spend

How choosing sustainability can actually help smart companies make money

Party tries to inject some adrenaline into comatose concept with Dublin event

Declan Ganley urges party not to shy away from big ideas at first think-in in Dublin

The real test of the Communist Party’s popularity may have arrived as economy slows

Companies and executives accused of moving from a value-creation approach to one of value extraction

Is libertarian economics at all realistic?The answer is no

Mark-to-market accounting implicated in financial meltdown

Opinion: rancher Cliven Bundy’s racist ranting has given American conservatives an easy out

Rising global inequality may not just be a cyclical phenomenon

Higgins has resorted to tiresome name-calling of the reactionary left, including their favourite term of abuse ‘neoliberal’

While economists may struggle to figure out the role money plays, at its heart is trust; and if we are to emerge from the bail-out we need the bond markets to trust us

The free-market apostle’s economics are too nuanced and realistic for the modern right

A high rate may be a risk in the very long run – but right now the risk is that it may be too low