In memoriam: Richard Easterlin, 1926-2024
Andrew Oswald Richard Easterlin, who passed away in December 2024, was a visionary economist whose pioneering research transformed how we think about economic growth, happiness and human wellbeing. This column, written by a friend and colleague, outlines some of the key contributions and impact of a long professional life mostly spent examining data on, and […]
How the European Union should respond to Trump’s tariffs
Ignacio García, Bercero Petros C. Mavroidis, André Sapir President-elect Trump has threatened to increase United States tariffs to 60 percent on imports from China and 10 percent to 20 percent on imports from other trading partners, including the European Union. In doing so the US would be ignoring its World Trade Organisation commitments and would also rollback […]