For the past year, I have assisted with research on Iran in the Virginia Tech economics department. Some of the research encompasses what might be called standard economic indicators — calculating ...

Data and statistics have always been important components of economics education, but these lessons traditionally rely on made-up data that provide round answers and clear solutions. These perfectly ...

Yang, who was studying a masters in economics at the time, said the first meeting was held on a “bit of shoestring,” ...

When 17-year-old Jerry Marnell thought about heading off to college, economics seemed like an enticing major to study. Between self-starting his own production company and serving as president of a ...

Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems In the early 2010s, a widespread feeling that economics teaching was failing students ...

The global pandemic has highlighted that economics is all around us. The past 18 months have taught us that scarcity forces everyone to make choices, which comes with a cost. An understanding of ...

Education and the economy are inextricably linked, though you wouldn’t necessarily know that by looking at the education policies making headlines around the country. While nearly every governor and ...

In the nineteen-forties, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was considering adopting a new economics textbook, the school’s president received warnings about the book’s author: “It is ...

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President and CEO Patrick Harker often compares economic forecasting to football. Despite the fact that the U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) from January 2025 rose ...