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President Trump's new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China have unsettled both domestic and international markets, concerning investors and manufacturers. This emerging global trade war has raised ...

Economic man represents a rational actor, aiming to maximize utility and satisfaction. Discover his role and the impact the concept has in economic theories and models.

July 11, 2024 • Planet Money Summer School is back for eight weeks. Join as we travel back in time to find the origins of our economic way of life. Today we ask surprisingly hard question: What is ...

Joel Mokyr’s intellectual journey to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics began at Yale, where he was Ph.D. student in the early 1970s under the mentorship of the late William Parker, a path-breaking ...

Capitalism is often treated as a timeless backdrop to modern life, a system that simply emerged in Europe and then swept the globe by force of inevitability. A new global history by Harvard historian ...

Underlying economic and market factors mattered in previous presidential rematches. They may help President Biden, even if polls aren’t showing that so far. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes ...

The study of the History of Economic Thought traces the evolution of economic ideas across centuries, from classical analyses of market dynamics and moral philosophy to contemporary methodological ...