Economics

...before the official UK Buy Nothing day. The reason is simple. For all its sophistications, our modern culture and the mainstream economics that underpin it do not put a price on nature - and nature is set to be the ultimate limiting factor...

In this article: Buy Nothing Day, Tony Juniper, Consumerism, Waste, Unemployment, Climate change, Deforestation, Robert Costanza, and Cambridge

...that for Americans to be richer, they need to throw out their old appliances faster -- I don't see it that way," said James D. Hamilton, an economics professor at the University of California at San Diego, who has blogged about the clunkers...

In this article: Recession, California, United States, and Tax

...Cochran for his leadership in bringing economic education opportunities to the state. Sweeney teaches economics and Advanced Placement economics and coaches ninth-grade football at Northwest Rankin. He earned the "Master Teacher of...

In this article: Mississippi, Department of Education, Rankin County, Esters, and U.S.

...the link between entrepreneurship and urban success was made explicit by Raymond Vernon (Harvard economist and inventor of the peanut M&M) and the economist Benjamin Chinitz. Chinitz argued that New York was doing better than Pittsburgh...

In this article: Harvard, Pittsburgh, Frank Knight, Joseph Schumpeter, New York, Tax, and University of Chicago

Goldstein then moved to Yale University, where he earned a master's, MPhil and a Ph. D. in economics. In 1982, Goldstein used those degrees to teach economics at Princeton University. He only taught a year before moving to the public...

In this article: Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner, World Bank, and Wall Street

...that the dramatic trend in recent decades toward the concentration of wealth in ever fewer hands coincided with the ouster of Keynesian economics from policymaking in the U.S., and the substitution of the so-called New Classicism. The...

In this article: John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky, Capitalism, Los Angeles Times, Karl Marx, U.S., Los Angeles, and California

...taxes would make pay raises less likely. "There's only so much money at the end of the day," she said. Bruce Meyer, a University of Chicago economics professor, said his studies show that higher unemployment taxes usually lead to lower pay...

In this article: Tax, Unemployment, Fiscal year, Recession, and University of Chicago

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.

...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