OPINION | Fashion and economics: an unlikely pair

For years, a theory has existed in the world of fashion and economics: the hemline index. Economist George Taylor is credited with the theory after discovering that when the economy is doing well, hosiery sales are up, according to Vogue Magazine. This led …

Real World Economics: Looming farm crisis, by the numbers

Edward Lotterman U.S. agriculture is on the brink of a financial shakeout that will be the worse since the farm crisis of the 1980s. This is largely ignored, even by many farmers, but the monster won’t stay under the table much longer. The problem is that …

BA (Hons) Economics vs BCom (Hons): Which degree will offer a gateway to business & policy?

(‘The Right Choice’ is a series by The Indian Express that addresses common questions, misconceptions, and doubts surrounding undergraduate admissions. You can read the stories here.)—  Prof (Dr) Sunil Kumar Choosing between a BA (Hons) in Economics and a …

Umakant Dash named new VC of Pune’s Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Pune, Jul 4 (PTI) Academician Dr Umakant Dash has been appointed the new Vice-Chancellor of the Pune-based Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), the institute said on Friday. Dash will assume office for a term of five years effective from …

Umakant Dash named new vice-chancellor of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

The End Of The Road − Speech By Alan Taylor, Bank Of England, External Member Of The Monetary Policy Committee, Given At ...

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Summer campers field test economics lesson

  Special to the News   The Central High School economics instructor recently attended professional development (PD) sponsored by the Birmingham branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, Teaching Economics through Children’s Literature and PD on the new Alabama …

America’s broken politics is breaking economics, too

The political realignment has come for economics. At least since the days of Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes in the last century, the divide in economic thinking roughly corresponded to the political split. In the mainstream, everyone was a …

Xiaoxue Sherry Gao Garners Editors’ Prize for Best Paper Published in Experimental Economics

A paper co-authored by Xiaoxue Sherry Gao, assistant professor in the Department of Resource Economics, has been honored with the Editors’ Prize by the Economic Science Association (ESA) for the best paper published in its flagship journal, Experimental …