That’s why economics should be considered a core high school subject. Failure to teach American students key economic principles denies them the critical knowledge they need to make intelligent ...

A new analysis shows that two thirds of new U.S.-born PhDs in economics have parents with graduate degrees, up from around 20 percent a few decades ago.

How important is it to have an economics background to run the Federal Reserve? The FT's US economics editor Sam Fleming talks to several leading economists on whether being versed in the theory ...