Economics is the study of how individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies allocate their scarce resources. At both local and international level, economists study elements of ...

I began reading “The Exaggerated Dropout Crisis” (Commentary, March 8, 2006) with great hope. Perhaps we Americans are doing better at graduating our students than we have been led to believe. Then I ...

Most economists subscribe to a belief in “positive economics,” which means that economic theory flows from economic data. Thus, all theory can be tested for ...

The dot-com explosion of the late '90s and early aughts drastically altered the economics of knowledge. Prior to the internet, the vast majority of information was accessible only through education, ...

When Laurence J. Malone started teaching introductory economics courses nearly two decades ago, he did what a lot of professors do: He crammed as much theory as possible into one semester. His ...

While I quit the field of economics many years ago to be a software entrepreneur—a decision I never regret, I like to think I still use my economics knowledge, math, and decision making logic every ...

Finance professors from around the world spent two days in September listening to research on a variety of issues, from financial applications of parallel processing to the ethics of cryptocurrency, ...

Sophomore Juan Barbecho, a mathematics and economics and finance double major at the University of Delaware, recently had the opportunity to participate in the University of Chicago’s Expanding ...

Kenneth Arrow is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, emeritus, at Stanford University; a fellow of the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care ...