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 ...

Managerial economics is no longer limited to understanding markets, costs, and pricing decisions. Businesses now operate in ...

A professor of economics, John Bouman knows how quickly college textbooks can deflate students? savings. Bouman, a professor at Howard Community College, recently authored two electronic college ...

In the nineteen-forties, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was considering adopting a new economics textbook, the school’s president received warnings about the book’s author: “It is ...

Economics remains dominated by men, both in terms of faculty members and students. New research suggests that while economics textbooks aren’t necessarily to blame, they’re not helping close the field ...

A street sign for Wall Street is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 28, 2016. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw is one of the most influential economists in the ...

THE late Hans Rosling is best known for his Ted talks (here is one on the wonders of the washing machine). Sadly he died last year. But before he did so, he worked with his son and daughter-in-law to ...