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Mainstream economics is in "disarray."It ignores the reality of power, it neglects questions of equity, and its policy recommendations can be "little more than a license for plunder."That's the opinion of Angus Deaton, the British-American economist who won the economics version of the Nobel Prize in 2015.The 78-yea...

The German economy is performing “dramatically bad”, the country’s economy minister Robert Habeck (Greens) said at a trade fair in Leipzig on Wednesday (14 February), with the government now only expecting a 0.2% growth rate for 2024. Last year, Germany posted the worst performance across all major global economies,...