Macroeconomics: Definition, History, and Schools of Thought

Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.
HeraldNet

Economics 101: Defining deficits, debt and a looming debacle

The terms debt and deficit are often used together in discussions and publications regarding the nation’s finances, and they are often confused with one another. The term deficit refers to a given ...
EurekAlert!

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Partha Dasgupta for defining the field of environmental economics by incorporating and quantifying the social value of nature

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in Economics, Finance and Management has gone in this sixteenth edition to Partha Dasgupta (University of Cambridge) for laying the foundations of ...
Calvin College

Calvin profs at forefront of national conversation on defining economic success

Calvin professors Matt Heun (engineering) and Becky Haney (economics) and Clemson professor Michael Carbajales-Dale (environmental engineering and earth sciences) are at the forefront of a national ...