Boy, people are easily triggered these days! Who would have thought that a columnist writing about basic principles of ECON 101 would cause such a triggered reaction to basic economic logic that an ...

Paul Solman: On Tuesday, we posted the first transcript from a series of interviews I’ve done with Paul Samuelson over the years. This installment picks up where the last left off, explaining the most ...

In his latest book, Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality, former technology executive and current University of Connecticut business law professor James Kwak argues that the lessons of ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Paul Krugman on Monday delivered an excellent primer on basic economics and the importance of what economists call accounting ...

A simple economics principle explains why falling gasoline prices won't make you travel more in 2015. And if you're skeptical, here are some data to back it up. By now you've certainly noticed that ...

James Kwak is the latest to take up the point that Economics 101 isn't all that good as a basis for designing public policy. To which the answer is, well, yes, of course. Why is anyone in the least ...

Supply and demand is the most basic principle in economics, but some companies need to brush up on this principle from time to time. Supply. Demand. Any basic economics class will start with these two ...

The arguments about whether Facebook and Reliance (among others) might be allowed to offer a subset of the internet for free, the program known as Free Basics, continues to heat up. And what is ...