Economics

...as an economic adviser before he returned to the central bank. Prior to these Washington posts, the former Princeton University economics professor's only political experience was serving on a local school board. When the financial crisis...

In this article: Ben Bernanke, The Fed, Christopher Dodd, Financial crisis, Thomson Reuters, Washington, and Recession

...of October 1947 in Brussels, he was educated at the Jesuit Sint-Jan Berchmans College in central Brussels, then studied philosophy and economics at the Catholic University of Leuven. Before entering politics, Van Rompuy worked at the...

In this article: Herman Van Rompuy, Christian Democrat, Yves Leterme, Brussels, Philosophy, Recession, and Catholic University of Leuven

...from credit markets, Shirakawa has vowed to maintain very low interest rates to support Japan's fragile economy. Previously an economics professor, he has been cautious about the economy, repeating that the outlook is highly uncertain and...

In this article: Bank of Japan, Masaaki Shirakawa, Japan, Deflation, and Deflationary spiral

She'll join economics faculty; she's praised for leadership since assuming post in 2003 Detroit -- Nancy Barrett will step down as provost of Wayne State University at the end of the school year, and will join the economics faculty, Wayne...

In this article: Wayne State University, E mail, Harvard, and Kwame Kilpatrick

...employee's negative impulse--but such impulses are inherently vague and difficult to define. Unlike in freshwater economics, behavioral economics focuses primarily on the bounds of rationality. Behavioral economists assert that markets are...

In this article: Paul Krugman, University of Chicago, Irrationality, and Democracy

THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING HANOVER, N.H.-A Dartmouth College economics professor is being honored by two national organizations. Andrew Samwick, who also is director of Dartmouth's Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for...

In this article: Dartmouth College, Andrew Samwick, New Hampshire, All rights reserved, E mail, and Carnegie Foundation

The Mississippi Council on Economic Education on Wednesday will announce its 2009 U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran Economics Teacher of the Year award-winner. The announcement will be made during an MCEE event from noon-1:15 p.m. at the Jackson...

In this article: Tate Reeves and U.S.

Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. On Oct. 27, the United Steelworkers announced an agreement with Mondragon International to move toward establishment of manufacturing cooperatives in the...

In this article: United Steelworkers, Ownership, Democracy, United States, Rate of return, Capitalism, and Venture capital

People going into Copenhagen are not necessarily aware of these things," Pavan Sukhdev, the leader of the study prepared by UNEP's Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Initiative, told Reuters. For example, planting and protecting...

In this article: United Nations, Deforestation, Copenhagen, Fossil fuel, Carbon, and WWF

...complex ideas in a captivating way, and when such an easy pun presents itself, newspapers and economists leap at the chance to make economics exciting. But politicians come at it from a different direction, engineering catchphrases in...

In this article: Stanford University, Australia, Melbourne Cup, Cornell University, and Facebook