In this environment, make-believe examples -- as ... Any professor of economics can articulate the field’s traditional basic concepts. Bright students, however, recognize the shortcomings ...

Last year, it managed to produce multi-decade-high inflation by ... Friedman’s teaching is that the money supply is always the basic determinant of inflation. This is the case even though ...

The same is true in economics — and countless others, I’m sure. Across the board, when teaching the basics, we should leave the fads out. We’ve all heard the cliché: A course teaches ...

Given recent economic news, I wonder whether our leadership has even a fundamental understanding of how a free-market economy works. Here’s a basic layout ... energy to produce and deliver?

There was much to do and many things to buy Thursday at the school’s Econ Fair, which aims to teach students about basic economics using ... which products to mass produce and forms a “company ...

First, there’s the straightforward effect we get from basic supply and ... something could ultimately make things worse. One of the beautiful things about economics is that it is non-partisan.

The Feb. 4 column “Environment can’t wait for carbon tax deal” reinforces a simple law of economics ... you have to make it more expensive. Why not make it increasingly more expensive ...