Jobs & Economy
Taxation Without Representation: Britain's £3 Trillion Debt and the Generation Being Asked to Pay For It
Every month the British government takes in around £100 billion and spends around £113 billion. The difference is borrowed. The people who will repay it are, for the most part, too…
Jobs & Economy
The Invisible Revolution: How Nobody Will Notice the End of Work
In July 2026, Elon Musk sat down with the Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and predicted "an age of amazing abundance where anyone can have anything they can thin…
Jobs & Economy
The Tireless Taxpayer: How Robots Will Pay the Bills That Humans No Longer Can
On the eve of the First World War the entire British state — army, navy, empire, courts, schools, roads, poor relief, the lot — cost a little over twelve per cent of national incom…