This interview is part of our “Econ Extra Credit” project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core-Econ together with our listeners. When you think of taking an ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve been teaching economics for 25 years, and yet I’ve routinely missed a perfect opportunity to explain how markets fail to deliver efficient solutions. It isn’t just me. During our first day of ...

It’s the time of year when more than 17 million college students head to bookstores to purchase textbooks and course materials for their classes. Alas, their trips will be expensive; this academic ...

A street sign for Wall Street is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 28, 2016. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw is one of the most influential economists in the ...

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 ...

MobLab.com, a company that designs and creates experiential games, will pair up games with college economics texts provided by Worth Publishers, an imprint of Macmillan Education. MobLab will create a ...

The Intermountain Power Agency coal-fired power plant outside Delta, Utah, on June 20. (George Frey/Bloomberg) Robert J. Samuelson’s June 24 op-ed, “It’s time we tear up our economics textbooks,” ...