Positive economics is a fact-based analysis of what is occurring in an economy, without making prescriptions of what should ...

In 2009, Indiana University political science professor Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the prize. She received it "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." Ostrom ...

ABCDE 2014 is intended to be a stock-taking of the foundations and methods of development economics. Over the last two decades, development economics has risen ...

In most my dealings with questions of economic development I run across men and women who view themselves as pragmatic doers, totally immune from anything quite as impractical as academic research.

When millions of homes and thousands of businesses lose access to electricity, it becomes obvious that energy is critical to the economy. We understandably focus on the crisis at hand. However, there ...

The competing theory, associated with the mid-20th century English economist John Maynard Keynes, argues that market economic activities are not inherently benign and can even be downright dangerous.

Andreas Ortmann does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Economic theory allows individuals to study the monetary effects of social and government policies. Nations are built upon several economic principles. Minimum wage is a common economic principle ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One evening in December, after a long day working from home, Jennifer Drouin, 30, headed out to buy groceries in central Amsterdam ...

Today’s newsletter isn’t about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), which has been the subject of a lot of back-and-forth in the economics world over the past couple of days. Suffice it to say that I ...

When millions of homes and thousands of businesses lose access to electricity, it becomes obvious that energy is critical to the economy. We understandably focus on the crisis at hand. However, there ...