In the revolutionary 1970s and 1980s, when economic theory exerted its “oppressive” power over the rest of the economics profession, expanding the language of economics was a shared core ...

Twenty years ago, something happened when Pablo Peña sat in Prof. Gary Becker’s doctoral-level course at the University of Chicago. As the economist lectured on human capital theory, a concept he’d ...

President Donald Trump’s administration reflects this division. Its economic team includes representatives from the more ...

His areas of research interest are development economics, economics of contracts and organisations, and public economics. Current projects include the role of market structure in microfinance, land ...

Monetarism is an economic school of thought that emphasizes the role of monetary policy in the economy. It's associated with the economist Milton Friedman, and gained prominence in the second half ...

Economic theory has its roots in antiquity. As early as the 18th century BC, ... when the role of governments in the recovery of economies was catalytic. To this day, ...

Economics is in many ways a novel subject, only gaining momentum in the past 100 years, and only more recently has modern economic theory begun to be developed. On the subject of sustainability, we ...

The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the ...

When I write and talk about economists’ role in policy making, I often refer to what I call the “lamppost theory” of economic policy. The theory holds that politicians use economics the same way a ...

Yates has been teaching economics at the university level since 2012, and in addition to her teaching role, has also served SNHU learners as an economics subject matter expert and academic advisor.