Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.

Specialization and trade are the key to economic prosperity argues Arnold Kling in an important new book, Specialization and Trade: A Re-Introduction to Economics. Kling has important insights about ...

Urbani Izziv, Vol. 23, supplement 2: GLOBALISING ECONOMIC SPACES, UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL CHALLENGES (2012), pp. S2-S10 (9 pages) Badingera, H., Müller, W ...

In addition to one prerequisite (Introduction to Economics), there are a minimum of 12 courses required for the major. Students may declare the major once they have completed ECON 2a or ECON 10a with ...

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin assured us on May 20 that the incipient trade war was “on hold.” Well, I guess the “hold” came off. The U.S. is now skirmishing with China, the European Union, Mexico ...

Unemployment rates, inflation, poverty, exchange rates — all familiar topics for readers who frequent this page. Normally, these are no laughing matter. But cartoonist Grady Klein and stand-up ...

Pomeranz, Dina. "Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods." Special Issue on Expanding the Frontier of Behavioral ...

BEIJING, Sept 20 (Reuters) - China will speed up the introduction of more policies to consolidate its economic recovery, state media CCTV reported on Wednesday, citing a cabinet meeting chaired by ...