Many situations in economics are complicated and competitive. New research raises the question of whether many theories in economics may suffer from the very fundamental problem that the key ...

The economic concept, which describes consumers’ sensitivity to prices, is a hot topic as inflation soars and executives fret about profits. By Jason Karaian and Veronica Majerol S&P 500 company ...

Behavioral economics combines elements of economics and psychology to understand how and why people behave the way they do in the real world. It differs from neoclassical economics, which assumes that ...

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This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. Last week, news spread that a Chinese AI company, DeepSeek, had built a cutting-edge chatbot at a fraction of the cost of its ...