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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Economists and psychologists work together to understand how human behavior impacts people's decision-making in the marketplace.

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

“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 ...

Thanks to AI, data science tasks that once demanded specialized skills can now be performed faster, more accurately and at a fraction of the cost.

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 ...

Northwestern Computer Science will have a strong presence at the Twenty-Fourth Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'23) on July 9 to 12 at King's ...

Behavioral economics combines elements of economics and psychology to understand how and why people behave the way they do in the real world. It differs from neoclassical economics, which assumes that ...

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 ...