With the new school year starting, there is good news for incoming students of economics—and anybody else who wants to learn about issues like inequality, globalization, and the most efficient ways to ...

Pons, Vincent, Jose Miguel Abito, Katarina Borovickova, Hays Golden, Jacob Goldin, Matthew A. Masten, Miguel Morin, Alexander Poirier, Israel Romem, Tyler Williams, and Chamna Yoon. "How Should the ...

Ethics is an undervalued concept in economics. Economic teaching is calibrated to focus on issues related to growth, productivity and optimization. Professors and lecturers responsible for teaching ...

Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. The subject of this course is microeconomics, which examines the decision making of individuals and firms with regard to consumption, ...

Since entering Stanford in September, I have taken five courses in Stanford’s economics department. All of them have been taught by men. In fact, each of the six core economics courses — Econ 1, Econ ...

Can economics be explained in everyday language? After the Depression and World War II, Chester Bowles, a former advertising executive, was inspired to write his 1946 pamphlet Tomorrow Without Fear, ...