“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treatises — if I can write its economics textbooks.” — Paul A. Samuelson What is the socially optimal amount of pollution in the ...

Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder Audio By Carbonatix When it comes to the scourge of “price-gouging,” Kamala Harris is on an island. Save the usual suspects such as ...

Given the conversation it has provoked, the fuss from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over President Trump’s economic adviser Kevin Hassett’s use of the phrase “human capital stock” might have to be ...

Paul Solman: On Tuesday, we posted the first transcript from a series of interviews I’ve done with Paul Samuelson over the years. This installment picks up where the last left off, explaining the most ...

Kamala Harris claims she has a plan to solve the crisis she helped cause: inflation. Under former President Trump, the inflation rate averaged 1.9%. It skyrocketed to 9.1% in 18 months under Joe Biden ...

In his latest book, Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality, former technology executive and current University of Connecticut business law professor James Kwak argues that the lessons of ...

The Budget Crunch Is Coming. States Must Adjust Their Spending Accordingly Sorkin Rounds Up the Usual Suspects A Warning from Chicago Audio By Carbonatix While universities exist to teach knowledge ...

When New York's Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that the world would end in 12 years due to climate change, she fell short of noting the U.S. national debt as another contributing factor. The ...

There's an interesting little pile on happening among the economic commentariat. Generally focusing on the interesting question of whether Robert Reich has actually managed to understand the basics of ...

Could you answer the following three questions for your next project? What will it cost? What is it worth? Will it earn sufficient profit? Before undertaking any project, these questions should be ...

The arguments about whether Facebook and Reliance (among others) might be allowed to offer a subset of the internet for free, the program known as Free Basics, continues to heat up. And what is ...