After my recent Wall Street Journal op-ed arguing that colleges should require at least one course in economics, the most common response I received was not disagreement, but curiosity. Fair enough, ...

Because of the inherent difficulty of the subject, students are not ordinarily allowed to take Economics A before their Sophomore year. The desirability of opening the course to Freshmen has at ...

As one of the social sciences, economics studies how the choices we make as individuals—as consumers and producers, as savers and investors, as managers and employees, as citizens and voters—combine ...

Whether making everyday choices in the grocery store, contemplating the cost of college or voting in an election, economic thinking can help us analyze the world around us to make more informed ...