As Congress works on one of the most important pieces of economic legislation in a generation, a Washington research group has pointed out that more than 8 in 10 members of Congress don't have a ...

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 ...

A report out of the Employment Policies Institute finds that only one in five members of Congress has an academic background in business or economics. ...

Portugal re-elected Aníbal Cavaco Silva as president, leaving the nation's reins in the hands of an economist scholar who has pledged to use his second five-year term to help steer his country ...

Modern monetary theory, sometimes shortened to MMT, is the supply-side economics of our time. A valid idea — that traditional fiscal-policy taboos need to be rethought in an era of low real ...

On the 2012 ballot for Mason County Board will be something of a rarity for the county’s voters: a Republican challenger for a District 2 seat. Hugh McHarry, 61, who lives just outside of Havan… ...

A flagbearer aspirant for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Duffour wants delegates to consider voting for someone who has a background in economics and finance to lead the party ...

But when she chanced upon an economics course during her engineering studies, she realized that economics was where her interests lay. Originally from Iran, Kazemi graduated from Simon Fraser ...

The vast majority of members lack an academic background in business or economics, according to a study by the Employment Policies Institute, a nonprofit group that takes a conservative stand on ...