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 ...

While I quit the field of economics many years ago to be a software entrepreneur—a decision I never regret, I like to think I still use my economics knowledge, math, and decision making logic every ...

The lessons from applying decision theory and behavioral economics to 401 (k) plans have broad implications for all types of decisionmaking. We already see the ideas about choice overload, for example ...

Many millennials who took a home economics class in middle or high school considered it to be boring and a waste of time. However, it’s a class that provided valuable information that we need to know ...

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 ...

It is remarkable how the economic debate that has dominated political life over the past decade in Britain and much of Europe—how austere should we be?—is completely irrelevant to our current crisis, ...

Since 2012, Economics for Kids (EFK), one of the signature programs of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship (CEEE) at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business ...

The economic turmoil of 2020 seems likely to continue into 2021, putting economics at the forefront of discussions. But what can physicists learn from economists? 2020 was a year of economic turmoil ...

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Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly, by John Quiggin, Princeton University Press, 408 pages, $29.95 On the radio and in his writings for The Nation, ...

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 proposal by a subsidiary of Progressive Rail, a small, short-line railroad headquartered in Lakeville, would pump some 500 million gallons of water annually from wells in Dakota County for rail ...