The COVID pandemic has taught us a lot about public health, but there have also been plenty of lessons about economics. After all, economics is the study of maximizing well-being in the face of ...
As economics professors, we are often asked what economics is and why people should study it. Economics is a social science that examines how societies allocate limited resources to produce, ...
Nearly half a million U.S. workers have gone on strike in 2023, demanding better workplace conditions and higher pay in some of the country’s most critical industries. Those workers — and the unions ...
Only 20 states in this country mandate that each and every high school graduate has some basic sense of personal finance and economics. And that makes no sense. While learning trigonometry about ...