Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Economics professor and wearer of many hats. This article is more than 2 years old. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), the Scottish ...

The financial crises of the past two decades, and our failure to predict them, have wreaked havoc on more than just the global economy. The bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000, the Enron scandal ...

Is ‘sustained’ economic growth compatible with ‘sustainable’ economic growth? Architects of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) clearly thought so — both sustained and sustainable ...