The time is ripe for good economic analysis from a progressive perspective. The Left has tended to have an understandable visceral dislike/distrust of markets. But this has had the effect of ceding ...

For more than 60 years, the United States’ leading professional association of economists has been meeting annually to discuss what’s going on in the field. Attendees can expect to see experts face ...

In a classic case of ‘they would say that, wouldn't they?’, economic textbook authors McTaggart, Findlay and Parkin have recently defended economics from the criticism that it failed in not predicting ...

For more than a century, neoclassical theory dominated economic thinking. Neoclassical economics is a theory based on three key assumptions: individuals have rational preferences; individuals maximize ...

It is easy to take potshots at the field of economics today, whether motivated by the financial crisis or the fact that Nobel laureates, such as economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. This article is more than 10 years old. In what academics call ...

Like many students in the Economics Department at The New School for Social Research, Ebba Boye and Ingrid Kvangraven want to widen the lens through which we examine economies. Their approach to ...

An introductory understanding of economics may be a dangerous commodity, writes Christopher Hayes, a senior editor at the magazine. He bases this argument on a recent reporting assignment in which he ...