Explore the connection between neoclassical economics and neoliberalism, focusing on the shared principles of free markets, lower taxes, and reduced regulation.

Economist Ha-Joon Chang explains why the school of Neoclassical economics that rose in the 19th/early 20th century – now today’s dominant school of economics – decided they wanted to be scientists.

While finance historians credit Harry Markowitz as the father of Modern Portfolio Theory, he enjoys pointing to Shakespeare as an early advocate of diversified portfolios. In “The Merchant of Venice,” ...

For more than a century, neoclassical theory dominated economic thinking. Neoclassical economics is a theory based on three key assumptions: individuals have rational preferences; individuals maximize ...

This thesis critiques neoclassical economic theory. In each chapter, with the exception of the last two, I will examine a different neoclassical theory and reveal its lack of realism, and how said ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. This article is more than 10 years old. In what academics call ...

Recently, through an e-mail exchange I was able to ask Richard Wolff a few questions about economics and alternatives to capitalism. Dr. Wolff is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of ...

Like many students in the Economics Department at The New School for Social Research, Ebba Boye and Ingrid Kvangraven want to widen the lens through which we examine economies. Their approach to ...

Steve Keen is a fellow contributor here at Forbes so this isn't a declaration of all out jihad upon his ideas. Rather, it's to show that one of his contentions about economics and the economy might ...

Global geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions are intensifying as nations compete for economic dominance and political ...