Paul Solman: I first met Michael Meeropol at Elisabeth Irwin High School in what later became SoHo, in the Cold War ’50s. He was among the most personable kids at “EI,” surprising to some in that he ...

Katelyn Wells was reading recently for her University of Baltimore business class about how well mortgage-backed securities worked. Then, she turned on the television and got a different picture. The ...

Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw is one of the most influential economists in the United States. But the 61-year-old’s authority does not stem from advancing an arcane scholarly finding. Nor has ...

Buffett highlights that unemployment remains so low, yet interest rates and inflation are not rising. At the same time the U.S. government continues to spend more money than it takes in. These ...

Should investors cringe or cheer these days when the government -- any government at all -- offers to help a slowly sinking economy? Japan is a disheartening case in point. The Bank of Japan Monday ...

Is economics about to succeed evolution as the next political battle to move into schools? Two recent articles complain, from different ends of the political spectrum, that economics textbooks are ...

Economics remains dominated by men, both in terms of faculty members and students. New research suggests that while economics textbooks aren’t necessarily to blame, they’re not helping close the field ...

We will soon learn whether the economy operates by the textbook. As the stock market falters, Washington is making the standard anti-recessionary moves. Just Tuesday, the Federal Reserve cut interest ...

Kansas University fifth-year senior Vance Carlson, of Belleville, searches for a design textbook Friday at the Kansas Union Bookstore. Students now have the option of renting textbooks from the ...