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, ...

I have just finished reading Daniel Kahneman’s masterful summery of his life’s work Thinking Fast and Slow. A psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002, I recommend his ...

This course provides an introduction to the field of environmental and natural resource economics. It is designed to give students an overview of how economic principles can be applied to ...

Post Keynesian economics is based on the economics of John Maynard Keynes. Unlike Keynesianism, it does not rely on rigidities or imperfections to explain less-than-full employment, a condition that ...

Often, though, this is almost as tedious as an economics textbook—only those who are assigned a class in microeconomics might find some enjoyment in this book, a potential respite from their dry ...

Krugman's Economics: An Introduction Next week, Paul Krugman will receive the 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics. His work on New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography, for which Krugman has been ...

The economic story that is emerging doesn’t look promising—high inequality seems to be associated with less economic growth and more instability.

Two important themes relevant for the economics of cyber security issues are (i) a security externality and (ii) a network effect that arises in the case of computer software. A nascent economics ...

We developed the CORE project – an online introduction to economics – to see if radically new content in first year economics courses can get the missing women back.