One idea unites the left and right lately: a zero-sum view of the world. Unfortunately, nice as it would be to hail a rare instance of ideological harmony, both sides are very much mistaken. Perhaps ...

Scott Weiner, a California state senator from San Francisco and its environs, has become known nationwide for pushing legislation to streamline housing construction in the Golden State. The effort ...

Has any politician ever taken Econ 101? If so, did anyone pass? On the Republican side, why don’t they get the idea that mutually advantageous trade leads to lower prices, higher employment and ...

Economic thinking has become more progressive in recent years. By David Leonhardt A then-obscure think tank named the Roosevelt Institute released a report in 2015 that called for a new approach to ...

Many real estate investors don’t set out to build rental businesses. Rather, they stumble into them. Think of the Gen Xer who just inherited their parent’s home, the professional who’s moving out of ...

Most jokes about economists end with the economist making an unwitting and all too truthful statement that leads to his demise, and thus the economics profession feels Senator Gramm’s pain this week.

Steve Keen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Ben Bernanke’s contributions to economic thinking have been vast, from his extensive study of the Great Depression to groundbreaking research on the interplay of finance and the macroeconomy and the ...

Billionaire business tycoon Elon Musk shot down a scarcity mindset and suggested that there is basically unlimited potential for creating jobs and businesses. "The ‘fixed pie’ fallacy is at the heart ...

The title of Benjamin M. Friedman’s “Religious Influences on Economic Thinking” is dully academic but eye-catching all the same. It is a slim book, some of it a restatement of the argument the author ...

Welcome to Voices Of Color, a column that explores what’s on the minds of voters of color in this year’s midterm elections. Too often, media coverage focuses on the political preferences of white ...

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