Jerome Powell, US Federal Reserve Chair, studied politics at Princeton, not economics. His background in law, politics, and ...

Regrettably, economics is one of the academic subjects that has been downgraded in recent years as U.S. schools have leaned into the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) disciplines.

The FT's US economics editor Sam Fleming talks to several leading economists on whether being versed in the theory is a basic requirement for a Fed chair. to myFT July 20, 2017 ...

The decline in the number of UK universities offering undergraduate degree programmes in subjects such as sciences, mathematics, modern languages and humanities has been well documented and is now of ...

The rise of economics in English schools has made no difference to a persistent gender divide among young people pursuing the subject, according to Bank of England research showing boys remain ...