In 2005, the economist Pietra Rivoli followed the production of a T-shirt from a cotton farm to a Walgreens to understand ...

Brad DeLong felt confident that the story started in 1870. The polymath economist was writing a book on economic modernity—about how humans transitioned from eking out an existence on our small ...

Economics describes multitudes, from the way we govern our bank accounts to the way national coffers are governed, painting a complex picture of life and – crudely speaking – how we can afford it. The ...

Author Scherman sets out with an admirable purpose: to make economics readable, and to show up Carlyle, who labeled economics “the dismal science.” Scherman’s economic theory is as simple as ...

Authors discuss their book on “how economic thinking can help improve college and university decisions.” In good times and bad, colleges cite economic trends to justify their decisions. But do ...

'Mere Economics' makes a religious argument for private property and free exchange.

Members of London's Jewish community protest outside the launch of the book “Understanding Hamas: And Why That Matters" at the London School of Economics, March 10, 2025.

I suggested why public health ethics is useless at best, harmful at worst. In 2024 I explained why, in my view, ethics must ...

London School of Economics: Book launch brands Hamas 'misunderstood' Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely has urged the school to cancel the launch, claiming that it will increase support for ...

And so it happened. During the debate, Donald Trump asserted that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, is a Marxist. Why? Because "her father [was a] Marxist professor in economics. [And he ...

Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production James K. Galbraith and Jing Chen University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL, 2025, 248 pp., $35 Among ongoing efforts to rethink the basic ...