Much fuss has been made about green jobs. Do they exist, and are more "brown" jobs displaced for every green one? Given all the political rhetoric, it's not surprising that there is also considerable ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a ...

Physicists look at the big world of planets, stars, galaxies, and gravity. But they also study the minute world of atoms and the tiny particles that comprise those atoms. Economists also look at two ...

This past semester, our colleague Eleanor Clemans-Cope argued that the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) ought to replace its requirement that students learn introductory ...

Studying economics helped new Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) alumnus Russell Zhang discover a passion for building microeconomics models. Now, he is graduating with a 4.15 cumulative grade ...

Katelyn Peters has a writer and editor for more than five years who focuses on both investing and personal finance content. In addition to her experience in finance, she is also a volunteer editorial ...

MICROECONOMISTS are wrong about specific things, Yoram Bauman, an economist and comedian, likes to say, whereas macroeconomists are wrong in general. Macroeconomists have borne the brunt of public ...

If asked to compile a list of economists’ mistakes over the last decade, I would not know where to start. Somewhere near the top would be failure to predict the global financial crisis. Even higher on ...

On the first day of a new college class, the professor usually takes attendance, hands out a syllabus, and warns everybody not to plagiarize. But for students taking ECON 201 at the University of ...