Lionel Robbins, in his famous Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, correctly showed that the task of economics is to develop, step by step, a realistic comprehension of the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The paper traces the historical development of American radical economics. The focus is on the work of Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. The ...

Thanks to Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish, I discovered this post-- "Plagiarism and essay mills," by economist Dan Ariely, the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University -- ...

At the end of last month, quarterly GDP data revealed that China surged ahead of Japan to become the world's second biggest economy, in aggregate and measured in current exchange rate terms — a first ...