Purdue’s Agricultural Economics Department covers a wide array of issues from development, trade, macroeconomics policy implications, agribusiness, production and consumption all the way to ...

Economics is more than just knowing how to handle money. It’s a social science analyzing the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services in order to explain how economies work.

Donald Trump vowed to launch “the largest deportation operation in American history,” and he has been dispatching federal agents into cities across the country to carry it out. The initiative is ...

A person of even middling intelligence who writes about markets will experience moments of acute self-doubt. I can map and predict the behaviour of markets — and more broadly, economies — in only the ...

Zohran Mamdani coasted to victory in the New York City mayoral race with a platform focused on making the city more affordable. He has promised ambitious social programs like universal child care and ...

The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to a trio of researchers Monday for their work on how cycles of technological innovation feed economic growth. Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University, Peter ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ...

An economics bachelor’s degree prepares you to collect and analyze information, monitor economic trends, and develop forecasts to guide industries in making critical decisions. Three Dynamic Tracks: ...

A persistent gender gap in the economics profession isn’t improving, and that has implications for corporate leaders who use economic information to make informed decisions. Experts say the lack of ...

Markets work best when many companies vie for customers’ favour. They work badly when a few firms dominate, carving up sales between them. Economists therefore need a measure of whether markets are ...

Math, science, history and English are all important school subjects for success in the world and the workplace. But “home ec,” short for home economics, also teaches life skills that everyone needs.

What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of ...