Katelyn Peters has a writer and editor for more than five years who focuses on both investing and personal finance content. In addition to her experience in finance, she is also a volunteer editorial ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as ...

Economics is a study of meeting unlimited wants of human beings with limited resources. Lionel Robbins, a well-known economist, defined economics as the science which studies human behaviour as a ...

Economists have faced a deluge of negative press in the past few years, ranging from criticisms over the failure to forecast the financial crisis, to the more recent disbelief over the granting of the ...

Economics used to be a social science, but this is no longer so. markwainwright/ Flickr Today, the field has largely become a study of individual agents acting outside of society, as if societal ...

When Hristos Doucouliagos was a young economist in the mid-1990s, he got interested in all the ways economics was wrong about itself—bias, underpowered research, statistical shenanigans. Nobody wanted ...

Editor’s Note: Billionaire venture capitalist Nick Hanauer made his fortune as the seventh investor in Amazon and as the owner of a web ad firm, which he sold to Microsoft in 2004 for a whopping $6.4 ...

We are in the midst of a boom in popular economics: books, articles, blogs, public lectures, all followed closely by the general public. Yet this boom in popular economics comes at a time when the ...

IN 1924 John Maynard Keynes, who invented macroeconomics, used a biographical essay about his mentor Alfred Marshall to muse on the qualities of a good economist. He must be mathematician, historian, ...

pany it) to make you lay awake at night and think about what you might have missed in all those years of formal education. I was fortunate enough to attend great schools, earning both a bachelor’s ...