Harvard economist Roland Fryer argues that fear of giving offense hinders scientific progress. Photo: Free to Choose Network ...

Economics is the study of how societies organize production, distribution, and the exchange of goods and services and about choices on how scarce resources are allocated to satisfy human wants. Who ...

Mainstream economists often base their analysis upon assumptions that do not square with reality. Austrian economics, on the ...

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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 ...

Global commodities markets are stuck in a holding pattern after China’s latest effort to revive its economy focused on the ...

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Smith's insight was one of the most important in the history of economics. It remains one of the chief justifications for free-market ideologies. Modern interpretations of the invisible hand ...

Photo: Imago/Zuma Press This field has a long and noble history in economics. The Nobelists’ contribution is to lay out empirical data on the specific economic institutions that helped or ...

They use statistical methods and theories about small- and large-scale markets to analyze economic performance and make predictions about the future. This is complicated work, and many careers for ...

The consequences reach far beyond stock markets or GDP figures. Sadly, this year’s report shows the continuation of a ...