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 ...

Economics remains dominated by men, both in terms of faculty members and students. New research suggests that while economics textbooks aren’t necessarily to blame, they’re not helping close the field ...

Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw is one of the most influential economists in the United States. But the 61-year-old’s authority does not stem from advancing an arcane scholarly finding. Nor has ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State administrator and a faculty member in the College of Forest Resources are celebrating the January release of a co-authored, newly revised second edition of a ...

New advanced economics classes have been approved for Novi High School, but the book that will be used to help instruct students is still up for debate. The school board unanimously approved the ...

As the cost of college tuition continues increasing across the country, conversations surrounding reduced funding for education have only escalated exponentially. Due to lack of funding, more ...

The diagram above represents the standard economics textbook presentation of the effects of minimum wage laws that artificially raise wages for low-skilled workers (to $7.25 an hour in this case) ...

The message is this: Paul Krugman wrote an economics textbook. You should buy it. Kinsley says that he looked at Greg Mankiw's text and found no such distinction; strange to say, however, it wasn't ...