We can't teach everything, but we can try to engage more students, and a more diverse student body, writes Clark G. Ross. The teaching of introductory economics at the college level remains ...

Just 3% of Ph.D.s in economics were awarded to Black people in 2016, according to a report from the American Economic Association. One way some economists are proposing to fix economics’ diversity ...

The Economics Department is working to create more entry-level courses focused on the applications — as opposed to theory — of economics in an effort to attract more freshmen and sophomores, according ...

The major concepts of macroeconomics are broken down with wit, verve, and clarity in this excellent follow-up to The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Vol. 1: Microeconomics. Klein and Bauman lay out ...

To help you understand the world of business and the stock market, it's smart to have a good grasp of economics. It has two main fields: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macroeconomics looks at the ...

This story contains details about suicide that may be disturbing to some readers. Our team here at Marketplace is taking an introduction to economics class as part of what we’re calling the ...

"Economics 10: Principles of Economics" is the most popular class at Harvard this fall with 627 undergraduate students enrolled. The class is taught by renowned economist Gregory Mankiw, who was ...

David Warsh finds much to like about Partha Dasgupta’s book, Economics: A very short introduction: The result is a serious textbook treatment shaped around the lives of two ten-year-old "literary ...

("I think it's a great gateway into a lot of different careers," renowned economist Gregory Mankiw said.CNBC) "Economics 10: Principles of Economics" is the most popular class at Harvard this fall ...