Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As the fallout from the 2008 global financial crash reverberated around the world, a ...

A group of UCLA students placed third in an annual national economics competition hosted by the Federal Reserve on Nov. 21. Nearly 140 teams from 36 states competed in the National College Fed ...

Economists are professionals in the social science discipline of economics who study how societies allocate resources among competing uses. Economics includes specialized fields such as macroeconomics ...

For years, Kansas politicians have argued over what students should know before they graduate. Lawmakers have pushed students to pass a civics test and complete personal finance coursework. Gov. Kelly ...

On October 13th the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel prize in economics to three people. Philippe Aghion of the London School of Economics and Peter Howitt of Brown University have ...

Left to right: student Teo Richard; UC Davis professor of economics Marianne Page; UC Merced assistant professor of economics Briana Ballis; and student Sam Lawrence (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) Sam ...

Kansas lawmakers have debated requiring civics and personal finance courses for high school graduation. The author argues that economics is a crucial, missing component in these educational ...