A Georgetown University professor specializing in public policy and infectious diseases discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic highlights critical flaws in the global economic approach to health crises ...

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the 10th anniversary of its New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) an interview ...

Economics provides a framework for understanding human behavior: the decisions made by individuals, firms, and governments attempting to satisfy their preferences and objectives as well as possible ...

The federal carbon tax increase that has raised gas prices by three cents per liter in most Canadian provinces has been met by nationwide protests, many featuring slurs against Prime Minister Justin ...

At the time of my taking, Fall 1988, Econ 101 at the University of Illinois was held in Foellinger Auditorium, 1000+ students in the lecture with a raft of smaller discussion sections staffed by grad ...

The high volume of available news challenges business leaders. Inflation, recession, interest rates and White Houses policy are all important topics, but the day is short and the news is long. And ...

Behavioral economics studies how psychological tendencies influence economic decisions and outcomes. Concepts such as loss aversion and bounded rationality explain why people evaluate outcomes ...

This report has emphasized the importance of valuing ground water resources and suggested a framework and valuation methods that could be used to quantify the economic values associated with a suite ...

We estimated deaths amenable to high-quality health care globally and then modeled the macroeconomic impact in low- and middle-income countries using two macroeconomic perspectives: a ...

The fundamental principles of economics are based on human nature and do not change regardless of how they are interpreted. People behave certain ways on an individual and societal level based on the ...