An Introduction to Ergodicity Economics is a new textbook that draws on physics to re-examine traditional economic theory. It ...

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. When you think of taking an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty-one, one-semester introductory economics texts are reviewed in terms of goals and objectives, organization, mathematical and graphical analysis, readability, historical development, bias, ...

Gregory Mankiw, author of the popular "Principles of Economics," appears before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee in 2004, when he was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. College ...

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 ...

A curious series of hieroglyphics appears in the first pages of the classic 1984 textbook, Lectures on Macroeconomics. Recently experts decoded the symbols and were surprised to find a poem. NPR's ...

In the nineteen-forties, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was considering adopting a new economics textbook, the school’s president received warnings about the book’s author: “It is ...

An official A-level economics textbook has sparked criticism after campaigners claimed it legitimised racist practices in the workplace. A section in the book, written by Steve Stoddard and David ...

The author is an editorial writer at the JoongAng Ilbo. Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw, renowned for his textbook “Principles of Economics” (1997), recently posted on his blog: “Value-added tax (VAT ...