Researchers find long-term, climate-friendly stimulus policies are often superior in overall economic impact – not just in slowing global warming.

Reopening state economies too soon risks a second wave of the pandemic, and a surge in medical costs. Anyone who pays insurance premiums and taxes will be picking up the tab.

Historian Walter Scheidel identifies pandemics as one of "the four horsemen" of major economic leveling. Will COVID-19 level inequality or shore it up?

The worst thing for the economy would be not acting at all to prevent disease spread, followed by too short a lockdown, according to research based on US data.

The coronavirus pandemic is reshaping how—and how much—we shop, but will reduced consumer spending stick? Here's an expert take.

The rush to make personal protective equipment like facemasks and face shields using 3D printers shows that the technology can help circumvent global supply chain disruptions.

Southern governors are starting to reopen their economies at the same time COVID-19 cases are spreading through the rural South.

New data shows women and people who did not go to university are more likely to have lost work and earnings since mid-March.

An economic downturn as severe as the great depression is possible, but what should emerge out of it?

Almost one and a half billion spending transactions reveal “real time” reactions of consumers in a major western economy during the nation’s peak pandemic period.