1. For several years, I have been teaching a freshman seminar at Harvard. I always start with this book, and the students always love it. Most economics books are bloodless. They give us ideas, but ...

Scholarly journals have published hundreds of articles about urban economies. The questions are always the same: Why do some cities grow faster than others? Why do some generate more wealth? Why do ...

Just how important is money? Few would deny that it plays a key role in the economy.­ During the Great Depression of the 1930s, existing economic theory was unable either to explain the causes of the ...

An introduction to economics. The microeconomics portion covers consumer choice, the firm, value and price theory, and distribution theory. The macroeconomics portion covers national income analysis, ...

The fundamental principles of economics are based on human nature and do not change regardless of how they are interpreted. People behave certain ways on an individual and societal level based on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economic policy for the 21st century. In his introduction to John Tamny’s new book Popular Economics: What the ...

All Carroll School of Management students, regardless of their area of concentration, are required to take Principles of Economics (ECON1101) and Statistics (OPER1135) as part of the CSOM Core.

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