Believe it or not, you can learn a lot from fiction. Some might say that’s because fiction often imitates real life. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily help explain why some of the silliest comic ...

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.

As a new flock of first-year Canadian university students settles into life on campus, many are receiving their first serious exposure to the study of economics. Some will find it exhilarating. Some ...

I studied economics in university. At the time, I did not find the theories and examples overly exciting, and it is certainly not a degree that gets a lot of discussion at parties. But once out of ...

INDIANAPOLIS, June 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Poptential™, a family of free social studies course packages from Certell, has infused personal finance lessons as part of its free Economics course to ...

I’m currently working on a project related to economic rent-seeking in higher education. As part of the research, I’m combing various histories of American higher education to learn how colleges have ...

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, ...

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, ...

“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?” ...