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Rachel Glennerster, economist, is one of Vox's Future Perfect 50. These are the people making the future a better place for everyone.

Seema Jayachandran, economist, is one of Vox's Future Perfect 50. These are the people making the future a better place for everyone.

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, economist, is one of Vox's Future Perfect 50. These are the people making the future a better place for everyone.

The fading of the ‘American Dream’–along with similar ideals in other developed nations–reflects a fundamental change in the American economy, argued renowned economist Raj Chetty, in a presentation using big data to pinpoint causes and put forward possible solutions.

To discern why we fight, we should ask why we do not. Article adapted from Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Chris Blattman.

With reading and math scores plummeting during the pandemic, educators and parents are now turning their attention to how kids can catch up. In a Q&A, Susanna Loeb, an education economist at Brown University, shines a light on the best ways to use tutoring to help students get back on track.

Stanford University professor Nicholas Bloom joins the show to talk about how the hybrid work revolution is going, and how the weakened connection between work and home continues to change where Americans live, how they travel, how they spend their time, how they raise their kids, and even how much...

According to Esther Duflo, the greatest responsibility for climate change is on the shoulders of developed and rich countries where The richest 10 percent of people produce half of the world's emissions.