Explore how the Baby Boomer Age Wave Theory predicts economic shifts due to changes in baby boomer spending habits after age 50. Learn about its societal effects.

In most my dealings with questions of economic development I run across men and women who view themselves as pragmatic doers, totally immune from anything quite as impractical as academic research.

ABCDE 2014 is intended to be a stock-taking of the foundations and methods of development economics. Over the last two decades, development economics has risen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One evening in December, after a long day working from home, Jennifer Drouin, 30, headed out to buy groceries in central Amsterdam ...

China’s five-year plans promote the symbiotic development of technology and institutions. Since 1953, China’s five-year plans ...

Discover Hotelling's Theory, which explains how owners of nonrenewable resources decide whether to extract and sell based on future price predictions and interest rates.

With every new administration there are hopes on the part of roughly a half of the population and dread on the other. It flips like a coin. A random walk, for the probability fans out there, that ...

What’s the theory behind my economic forecast? In simple language, it’s complicated. My forecast is judgmental rather than coming from an econometric model. I begin with a “bottoms-up” prediction of ...