In most my dealings with questions of economic development I run across men and women who view themselves as pragmatic doers, totally immune from anything quite as impractical as academic research.

ABCDE 2014 is intended to be a stock-taking of the foundations and methods of development economics. Over the last two decades, development economics has risen ...

Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on how mistaken assumptions by top U.S. policymakers have worsened the financial crisis. It has been three years since the worst financial collapse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One evening in December, after a long day working from home, Jennifer Drouin, 30, headed out to buy groceries in central Amsterdam ...

Economic theory allows individuals to study the monetary effects of social and government policies. Nations are built upon several economic principles. Minimum wage is a common economic principle ...

The competing theory, associated with the mid-20th century English economist John Maynard Keynes, argues that market economic activities are not inherently benign and can even be downright dangerous.

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James Morley receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Welcome to our series on economic theories that are changing the way we think. Today, James Morley explains how the very concept of ...

What’s the theory behind my economic forecast? In simple language, it’s complicated. My forecast is judgmental rather than coming from an econometric model. I begin with a “bottoms-up” prediction of ...