He’ll repair the Biden damage, and his pro-growth agenda will drive private investment.

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. Positive economics describes and explains economic phenomena in objective and measurable terms, while normative economics ...

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Intergenerational mobility — an adult’s ability to exit poverty and earn more than their parents — is falling in the USA. Parolin et al. compare intergenerational poverty persistence (a ...

While many people may think of money when they hear the word "economics," that’s only one aspect of this broad field. Economics majors analyze social systems — including markets, corporations ...

High-income, highly educated people often vote for liberal Democrats for two reasons: guilt and mythology. It is not unusual for these folks to think they won the genetic lottery unfairly. They were ...

The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations.

Online master’s degree programs in economics offer a flexible avenue to pursuing a career in economics and can sometimes be more affordable than on-campus programs. These programs dive deep into ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson examined how different kinds of European colonization led to some nations being rich and others poor.

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law and ...

The economics prize is officially known as Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Unlike the prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace ...

Christine Olsson/TT News Agency, via Associated Press By Jeanna Smialek Jeanna Smialek is an economics journalist reporting from Washington. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was ...