Whether making everyday choices in the grocery store, contemplating the cost of college or voting in an election, economic thinking can help us analyze the world around us to make more informed ...

What economics lessons can we take away from the pandemic? Did early shortages show a failure of globalization or of government? Were lockdown policies the right course? And how optimistic should our ...

In her classic book Atlas Shrugged, Rand used the Greek myth of Atlas holding up the world as a metaphor. The myth is a ...

When President Biden signs the nearly $2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, he’ll be signing a pretty popular piece of legislation. A whopping 76 percent of Americans support the American Rescue Plan, ...

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The paper also argues that platforms like Netflix, with global reach and diverse catalogues, offer a rich foundation for building more inclusive economics lessons. Dr. Picault's recent work builds on ...

The world is full of surprises. When we published our Outlook 2020 in December 2019, we did not forecast a recession in the United States. Heading into 2020, the economy was growing modestly—we didn’t ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Mike Walden is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University. RALEIGH – Although I no longer teach students in the classroom – having ...

This symposium will feature a fireside chat with Andrew Ross Sorkin on the lessons from the 1929 Wall Street crash, followed by a panel discussion on the present-day risk of a bubble, and how policy ...

The US economy has experienced two terrible economic crises in the past decade and a half. The first was the 2008-09 financial crisis, which ushered in the first deep recession in a quarter-century.