Whether (or how) health care might be thought of in economic terms is the subject of long-standing controversy. Often lost in these debates, however, is that schools of economic thought come in many ...

In their landmark book ‘Why nations fail: the origins of power, prosperity, and poverty’, published a little more than a decade ago, the authors, Daron Acemoglu, and James A. Robinson, pointed out an ...

This interview is part of our “Econ Extra Credit” project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core-Econ together with our listeners. When you think of taking an ...

Burnaby Mountain Professor of Economics Douglas Allen was recently awarded the Douglass C. North Research Award by the International Society of New Institutional Economics (ISNIE). “I’m very happy and ...

The purpose of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics is to provide a forum for creative and scholarly work in agricultural economics. Submitted manuscripts focus on the economics of natural ...

HARVARD professor N Gregory Mankiw is one of the most influential economists in the United States. But the 61-year-old's authority does not stem from advancing an arcane scholarly finding. Nor has he ...