Economists and political activists have been issuing warnings about growing economic inequality, or the widening economic disparity between social groups, in the U.S. for years. Economic inequality ...

This is the story of one of the world’s greatest (but least famous) con artists. Ghana’s John Ackah Blay-Miezah bilked investors on several continents by promising he knew where lost gold was hidden.

Like many folks in Washington, I’ve been making my way through Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism. The authors are both eminent ...

Steve Keen's latest book is succinct and wide-ranging. This book provides a clear direction for economics. Meaningful macroeconomic models must be based on reality. Equilibrium for modeling nonlinear, ...

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.; Alec Nove; Carlota Perez; Robert J. Gordon; Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz; Michael Pettis; William D. Nordhaus Request reprint permissions here. Editor’s note: For our ...

The rain was heavy for parts of last weekend in the Washington, D.C. area. Seeing it coming down in sheets, it got me thinking about how people used to live. How awful it must have been in the days of ...

In good times and bad, colleges cite economic trends to justify their decisions. But do colleges operate with an understanding of economics? Sandy Baum, a nonresident senior fellow at the Center on ...