The first edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics by David A. Moss was published in 2007—just as one of the world's great economic downturns was taking off. The second edition has just been ...

Comparative advantage is the economic principle that an individual, firm, or nation faces a unique set of advantages and disadvantages relative to others in its production of particular goods and ...

Shannon Fiecke’s Monday column, “Steel tariffs are U.S. protectionism at its worst,” misapplies basic principles of economics. Although Fiecke is correct that the tariffs imposed by the Bush ...

Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State has once again raised the ante of national consciousness of how to grow and sustain the country’s economy, with his very unequivocal advocacy for states to ...

Emily Oster, an enormously inventive thinker, has a terrific article in Slate on how families should approach assigning various household tasks. Her basic insight is that we should draw on the ...

A March poll, for example, showed that more than two-thirds think the U.S. should take steps to reduce the trade deficit with China, even if a resulting trade war drives up consumer prices. That's in ...