The pace of global recoveries since 1975 has been slower and weaker, consistently every time, according to the OECD.
Predictions that technology shifts will cause urban job concentrations to disperse have been made a number of times in the last half-century or so.
The last few decades have been a time of economic globalization. But that trend has been faltering for a few years now, with rising political obstacles to trade and migration.
The University of Pennsylvania Law Review (June 2020) has published a nine-paper symposium on antitrust law, with contributions by a number of the leading economists in the field who tend to favor more aggressive pro-competition policy in this area.
Leading oil and fuel companies will use the covid-19 pandemic to redefine their strategy.
Robert J. Shiller (Nobel '13) delivered the Godley-Tobin Lectures, an annual lecture delivered at the Eastern Economic Association meetings, on the subject of “Animal spirits and viral popular narratives” (Review of Keynesian Economics, January 2021, 9:1, pp. 1-10).
Leo Feler has a half-hour interview with Robert J. Gordon on "The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of American Growth" (UCLA Anderson Forecast Direct, February 2021, audio and transcript available).