Discover how economists' assumptions shape economic models, affecting predictions about consumer behavior, resource ...

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded today to two scholars who revolutionized the technique of statistically modeling national economies, stock markets, and other complex systems ...

This article appears in the April 2023 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Economics is commonly described as the science of scarcity. We have limited resources, and we have to ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has emerged as the flagship concept and use case for blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. DeFi is the use of smart contracts and other decentralized technologies to ...

Agent-based modelling (ABM) has emerged as a pivotal tool in macroeconomics and economic policy analysis. By simulating the interactions of numerous heterogeneous agents — such as households, firms, ...

New economic modeling shows that there is a near certainty that the economy will enter a recession within the next year. The news comes as the Federal Reserve continues its most aggressive tightening ...

LONDON - OCTOBER 07: In this photo illustration, a man looks at a graph representing the 12 month decline of the FTSE 100 share index on October 7, 2008 in London. Financial markets are still ...

Behavioral economics combines elements of economics and psychology to understand how and why people behave the way they do in the real world. It differs from neoclassical economics, which assumes that ...