Whether making everyday choices in the grocery store, contemplating the cost of college or voting in an election, economic thinking can help us analyze the world around us to make more informed ...

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 ...

Since 2012, Economics for Kids (EFK), one of the signature programs of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship (CEEE) at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business ...

There's a little jingle in your pocket, and you can't wait to spend it. So what will you buy? Will you purchase candy or a toy? Is there enough for a present for Mom or Grandma? Or after you read "M ...

With Halloween just a few days away, the trick-or-treating is about to begin. Americans are predicted to spend $3 billion on Halloween candy this year, and about the same on costumes and decorations.

Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly, by John Quiggin, Princeton University Press, 408 pages, $29.95 On the radio and in his writings for The Nation, ...

At Hinsdale South High School, Jeff Waterman is known for far more than teaching economics—he’s known for changing lives. For nearly two decades, Waterman, a social studies teacher, has brought ...

Many millennials who took a home economics class in middle or high school considered it to be boring and a waste of time. However, it’s a class that provided valuable information that we need to know ...

“Financial education.” This was my condensed response to a question in a recent Publishers Weekly interview: “What could have helped improved the lives of so many people during the Covid-19 crisis?” ...

It is remarkable how the economic debate that has dominated political life over the past decade in Britain and much of Europe—how austere should we be?—is completely irrelevant to our current crisis, ...

What economics lessons can we take away from the pandemic? Did early shortages show a failure of globalization or of government? Were lockdown policies the right course? And how optimistic should our ...

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