Every year, around 400 undergraduates sign up for the introductory course Econ 0110: “Principles of Economics.” Nearly four out of every five students in the current iteration of this course are first ...

Wittgenstein, a passionate reader of detective stories, famously said that “more wisdom is contained in the best crime fiction than in conventional philosophical essays.” Marshall Jevons’ The Mystery ...

Reviewed Works: Basic Principles of Economics and Their Significance for Public Policy Harry Gunnison BrownA Postscript and Questions, Being Volume II of Basic Principles of Economics Harry Gunnison ...

The human race’s curiosity has expressed itself in the creation of various fields of study that examine specific aspects of the world around us. (IE) The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to ...

I was recently asked to run a session on the basic principles of economics for a group of university students. This got me thinking: why would such a group of diverse individuals – most of whom were ...

Incentives do matter, and to suggest otherwise is to betray basic principles of economics. In the 1980s, the inventive rock band Devo put forward the theory that mankind was experiencing de-evolution ...

THE price hikes being experienced in Zimbabwe could be easily diagnosed by the basic principles of economics, the Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) has said. Zimbabwe has been experiencing ...