Editor’s note: Dr. Mike Walden is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University and is a regular contributor to WRAL TechWire. RALEIGH – Every time there ...

Imagine State Department heavyweight Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 or Obama-era U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman ’85 as students in what is now Princeton’s School of Public and International ...

Supply and demand dynamics dictate pricing; equilibrium is achieved when both balance. Market structures affect competition, influencing company performance and investment potential. Understanding ...

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 ...

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 ...

Economics can seem as if it is an obscure subject, in that you haven't had the chance to study it much, but parts of it can be very understandable. A simple definition of economics is the study of how ...

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 573-594 (22 pages) This paper examines the relationship between modern theories of microeconomics and macroeconomics and, more generally, it ...

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 ...