1. For several years, I have been teaching a freshman seminar at Harvard. I always start with this book, and the students always love it. Most economics books are bloodless. They give us ideas, but ...

How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest History of Economics”; Old Street; £14.99 There is no shortage of books on the ...

Daunton has written a sweeping history of international economic cooperation and of the meetings and institutions through which it is organized. The author’s original design for this book, many years ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...

Beyond benchmark measures like employment, growth, and inflation, economics encompasses the full spectrum of humanity. It affects—and reflects—everyone. Central bankers may be most acutely aware of ...

A flurry of new books highlights broad disagreements over how to address the problem. “Most of us agree that inequality is a problem — even if we can’t agree on what that actually means and what to do ...