Equidad, Diversidad e Inclusión
Economics needs to do more than attract women to solve its gender problem
At 38, less than two years after completing a PhD in economics, Carolina Alves is taking a big risk with her career.
Eshe Nelson is an economics and markets reporter at Quartz in London, covering everything from company earnings to central banks. Before joining Quartz, she was a markets reporter at Bloomberg News, primarily covering bonds and currencies in the UK and Europe in the aftermath of the sovereign debt crisis, during the Scottish independence referendum, EU referendum and Greece's debt negotiations. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from City University London.
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Educación y habilidades
Globots and telemigrants: The new language of the future of work
Globotics. Telemigrants. White-collar robots. To describe the future of work, Richard Baldwin is developing a new lexicon.
Comercio e Inversión
How do World Cup matches affect the stock market?
Even the most casual sports fan can’t help but get sucked in by the World Cup. In 2014, 3.2 billion people watched the matches. This year, even more people are expected to tune in to the ...
Empleos y el Futuro del Trabajo
A new study from Stanford and Harvard proves that US inequality goes deeper than class
For decades, an increasingly loud chorus has claimed that economic inequality is primarily driven by class, with other possible reasons for disparities, such as race, playing a lesser rol...
Naturaleza y Biodiversidad
How Norway’s sovereign wealth fund made $130 billion in one year
2017 was a big year for Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, already the largest in the world. After surpassing $1 trillion in assets, the fund announced today that it made an annual return of...
Cuarta Revolución Industrial
Job automation will hurt women first - but will ultimately hurt men more
In late 2017, the McKinsey Global Institute estimated that automation and other new technology could mean that 375 million people around the world will need to change occupations to avoid...
Crecimiento Económico
A Nobel laureate explains why we don't have trust in economists anymore
Over the past decade, reams of research by economists has been devoted to investigating why they failed to foresee the financial crisis, among other things economics has recently gotten w...
Crecimiento Económico
Eastern Europe’s major economies are having a “Goldilocks moment”
Germany has long been the engine that drives the EU’s economic growth, but for the past few years it has been outpaced by countries further east—most notably Poland, Romania, and the Czec...
Crecimiento Económico
There are now more billionaires in Asia than the US
At the end of last year, there were 1,542 billionaires around the world sitting on a $6 trillion trove of wealth, according to a new report by UBS and PwC. The good news, for them, is tha...
Tecnologías emergentes
Richard H. Thaler has won the Nobel Prize for Economics
The 2017 Nobel prize in economics was awarded to Richard H. Thaler, an American economist at the University of Chicago, for his contributions to behavioral economics.
Geografías en profundidad
You probably won't guess the country with the lowest unemployment in the EU
Germany is Europe’s economic powerhouse, with a reputation for efficiency, order, and low unemployment. But since the end of 2015, the job market in the neighboring Czech Republic has bee...
Sistemas Financieros y Monetarios
Digital finance doesn't just make your life easier, it could make nations wealthier
When was the last time you went to a bank branch to make a payment? Digital finance has transformed rich countries, where many now take for granted paying our bills online, sending money ...