(Bloomberg Opinion) -- For a whole generation, Harvard professor Gregory Mankiw defined the conventional wisdom in economics. He taught the university’s introductory course for 14 years. I read his ...

Introductory inquiry into the workings and interrelationships of the aggregate economic system. The primary focus is on total production and its distribution, employment and price levels, and the ...

Together with their teaching staff, the 14 students of Econ 183: “The Cardinal Fund” act as the wealth manager for the $1 million Cardinal Fund provided by the Stanford Student Enterprises (SSE) ...

Stocks are down, down, down. But student interest in economics appears to be trending upward. The financial crisis has made “the dismal science” more relevant and immediate to many high school and ...

Although economics has been famously characterized as the "dismal science," the Wine Econ class taught by Karl Storchmann, a New York University economics professor, sounds less dismal than it does ...