Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Economics professor and wearer of many hats. This article is more than 2 years old. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), the Scottish ...

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Recently, at the House of Sweden, there was a feisty exchange among the newest Nobel laureates. First, one of the economics winners, Robert Shiller, questioned the validity of the ...

Regarding Matthew Hennessey’s op-ed “JD Vance Defies the Market’s Gravity” (June 3): I always find it amusing when people assert that economics isn’t a science. Such statements suggest that they don’t ...

Though economics presents its own methodological problems, the basic challenges facing researchers are not fundamentally different from those faced by researchers in other fields. As economics ...

“The French have heads not for economics but for politics,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote wisely in 1848. Along with this disinclination toward economics, the French tend to be anticapitalist and ...

Crucially, this is not just academic debate. The UK has already experimented with elements of new economics, for example, ...

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific innovation, coupled to market ...

Jason Hickel is a professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), Spain, and a visiting senior fellow at the International ...

The U.S. economy grew at a robust 2.8% in the second quarter, far faster than economists’ predictions of just 2%. The miss is reminiscent of a long losing streak for doomsaying about the U.S. economy.

Nearly 400 years ago Galileo performed the first recorded laboratory experiment, timing balls as they rolled down an inclined plane to test his theory of acceleration. Since that time, laboratory ...