Tag: Economics

As Claudia Goldin accepts the Nobel Prize in Economics this month, we can take a lesson from her research on ...

Co-blogger Kevin Corcoran wrote a recent post titled “Economics in Everyday Life.” He asked commenters to give examples of how ...

There are many ways to learn the ideas of economics. One way is through the standard method – read textbooks ...

Recently, the head of Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division, Phil Spencer, gained some attention when he acknowledged that Xbox has lost ...

There are so many things wrong with South Africa, how does one decide what needs fixing first? Energy supply, water ...

Science writers like to suggest that anyone can understand the intuition behind theories such as special relativity and quantum mechanics, ...

The Economics of the Stock Market. 2022. Andrew Smithers. Oxford University Press. Judging by the behavior of the stock market, ...

  If you follow discussions about tax policy that academics and politicians engage in, sooner or later you’ll come across ...

With the rise of social media (especially Twitter), it has becomes easier to observe changes in the zeitgeist. Over the ...

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