The New York Times claimed in its 1619 Project that plantation slavery was the basis for American capitalism. However, ...

Sean Ross is a strategic adviser at 1031x.com, Investopedia contributor, and the founder and manager of Free Lances Ltd. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance ...

It’s more than just being logical and analytical, research shows. But misperceptions can affect how people are treated and ...

Through a series of surveys, researchers determined that people with less time or money to spare are better able to focus on what the purchase might be worth to them. The researchers began their ...

Having someone from outside a field have a look at some of the findings and assumptions from within a field can be very illuminating. It can, of course, go wrong, as with a lot of econophysics. The ...

NOT long ago, the starting assumption of any economic theory was that humans are rational actors who maximise their utility. Economists summarily dismissed anyone insisting otherwise. But over the ...

Since the study of economics relies on the assumption that people largely act in their rational self-interest, when people vote otherwise, economists are likely to blame faulty or missing information.