Positive economics focuses on the former, making objective and testable economic analysis based on data; normative economics focuses on the latter, with value-based assessments and recommendations ...

GDP and other hard data are more comprehensive and focus on the past. While anecdotal evidence is more fickle, but can show early signs of an economic shift.

Conduct statistical and/or quantitative analysis using a computer (I ... evidence related to topics studied in the course's subject area (I/D) Critically assess economic arguments, assumptions, and ...

In January 2019, former Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo pitched DFFT at the World Economic Forum in Davos as a new model for global data governance. The DFFT concept, simply put, is to promote the ...

China’s growth rate in 2015 was probably overstated by “a couple of percentage points,” according to new data analysis by Bloomberg Economics. Gross domestic product at the provincial level ...

Economic evaluations of manufacturing operations and projects including essential concepts in accounting, depreciation, time value of money, and the evaluation of investment alternatives are applied ...