Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. The subject of this course is microeconomics, which examines the decision making of individuals and firms with regard to consumption, ...

Policies designed to encourage drugmakers to introduce over-the-counter (OTC) versions of previously prescription-only ...

Behavioral economics combines elements of economics and psychology to understand how and why people behave the way they do in the real world. It differs from neoclassical economics, which assumes that ...

Economics is split between analysis of how the overall economy works and how single markets function Physicists look at the big world of planets, stars, galaxies, and gravity. But they also study the ...

One beauty of economics — the study of how human beings use scarce resources — is that its basic principles apply to life even if money is not involved. Opportunity cost, externalities, sunk costs, ...

Residents in West Virginia are likely to be saddled with $36 million in losses due to "poor coal economics," the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) warned, and an expert ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Preston Cooper writes about the economics of higher education. By now, it’s a well-known fact that your salary after graduating ...

The segregation of young students from low-income families — brought on by climbing Latino enrollments and the departure of white and middle-class families — has worsened across the country over a ...