Economics is a branch of social science focused on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

Once the world’s richest nation, the U.K. now lags behind the vast majority of U.S. states in per capita wealth. A structural crisis compounded by global conflict.

Government often tries to make rules for industries it doesn’t understand. There’s a better way.

Professors Salter and Cutsinger make a case for economics education as a key for Gen Z's success in new AI world.

The effects of the war in Iran are squeezing consumers, businesses and governments around the world, raising the prices of ...

This week’s economic reports will tell us whether the U.S. economy was already losing momentum before war in the Middle East pushed oil prices and bond yields higher.We’ll get a fresh read on home ...

In the United States today, life expectancy is falling as suicides, drug addiction, alcoholism, and heart disease are inexorably on the rise, contrary to the trends in other First World countries. One ...

Professor Hanson has had it with economists. We are a “doctrinaire” group of supposed scholars. We fawn over “free trade.” ...

The theme of debt recurs in many novels of the 19th century. Based on this observation, Alexandre Péraud, a literature ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin A sustained escalation of the US/Israel–Iran conflict could push global oil markets beyond a price ...

Financial literacy courses are good, but they are best paired with training in economic reasoning.

As an economist who is well known in my town, I get calls from economics majors (or their parents) asking for help finding jobs. Here’s a summary of my advice for soon-to-graduate or recently ...