STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State administrator and a faculty member in the College of Forest Resources are celebrating the January release of a co-authored, newly revised second edition of a ...

Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw is one of the most influential economists in the United States. But the 61-year-old’s authority does not stem from advancing an arcane scholarly finding. Nor has ...

Economics remains dominated by men, both in terms of faculty members and students. New research suggests that while economics textbooks aren’t necessarily to blame, they’re not helping close the field ...

Steve Keen's latest book is succinct and wide-ranging. This book provides a clear direction for economics. Meaningful macroeconomic models must be based on reality. Equilibrium for modeling nonlinear, ...

In the nineteen-forties, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was considering adopting a new economics textbook, the school’s president received warnings about the book’s author: “It is ...

In this article, we will outline some of the best resources for learning about why failing economic practices led to the invention of bitcoin, by exploring first principles of economics, through the ...

Explore whether economics can be considered a science, analyzing its classification, testability, and consensus within social science debates.

Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson, Volume 1—Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948. By Roger Backhouse. Oxford University Press; 760 pages; $34.95 and £22.99. IN 1940, Paul Samuelson needed an ...

The diagram above represents the standard economics textbook presentation of the effects of minimum wage laws that artificially raise wages for low-skilled workers (to $7.25 an hour in this case) ...

The message is this: Paul Krugman wrote an economics textbook. You should buy it. Kinsley says that he looked at Greg Mankiw's text and found no such distinction; strange to say, however, it wasn't ...