INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — With inflation reaching a 40-year high and talk of a looming recession, high school students are coming of age during one of the most challenging economies in recent history. To ...

In American foreign policy, the period from 1990 through the summer of 2001 has been called the “holiday from history.” Between the collapse of the Soviet empire and the 9/11 attacks, the United ...

Pope Francis’s new encyclical Fratelli tutti touches on many issues relevant to national and international economic policy. These will generate considerable debate and, given the influence of the ...

Even in retirement, Steven Reff likes to bring a cheerful excitement to the world of economics, always hoping to provide students with fun, useful and free economics resources. It’s that pursuit that ...

A central lesson of economics is that there’s rarely such a thing as a free lunch. Most policy choices involve trade-offs or benefit some people while incurring costs on others. Every so often, ...

The economics major provides a critical examination of how the economic system works in the United States and throughout the world. The introductory courses are surveys of economic problems, policies, ...

Economic stories are often built on data. This information can shape how the public understands financial conditions, government policy and business performance. But in our data-saturated information ...

Like Popsicles, sunscreen and swimming holes, it has become a summer tradition. Planet Money Summer School is back. (You can listen to past seasons here. We've explored topics like economic history, ...

The long reach of life experience affects real-world economic outcomes, for policymakers and consumers alike On October 29, 1929, the roaring twenties came to a sudden close in the United States. In ...

It is the mid-1990s and the economics faculty at a leading business school is meeting. The assembled dons are in a prickly mood. Many are upset that business-school fields, such as marketing and ...