The bailout exposed a fact most watchdogs already knew about Congress -- it ain't the London School of Economics. So, the president of Andrew Jackson University, a small online school based in ...

There's a bit of a frustrating back and forth that often happens in economic debates. Alice A will try to settle a question like, say, the injustice of minimum-wage legislation, with some principled ...

Welcome to the first week of our “Econ 101” crash course. Together, we’ll read one chapter each week from Core Econ’s “Economy, Society, and Public Policy.” Here’s a link to the free online version of ...

This interview is part of our “Econ Extra Credit” project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core-Econ together with our listeners. A traditional introductory ...

Harvard's Greg Mankiw, author of the most popular college introductory economics textbook, is often regarded as America's econ teacher. He famously refers to his "Principles of Economics" as "my ...

I’ve been teaching economics for 25 years, and yet I’ve routinely missed a perfect opportunity to explain how markets fail to deliver efficient solutions. It isn’t just me. During our first day of ...

For many college students, introductory economics is a rite of passage. Some may call it a general education requirement, others may call it a gateway to the corporate world. But there is a common ...

Craig Richardson’s “The $250 Econ 101 Textbook” (op-ed, Jan. 14) is right on the money about textbooks. One semester I switched my students to a perfectly acceptable finance text offered online for ...

James Kwak is a brilliant young law professor, economics blogger and successful entrepreneur. His new book is a slim little volume that calmly and clearly blows up the major premise of most ...