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Economics has a reputation for being a “dismal science,” but self-proclaimed “renegade economist” Kate Raworth has a sweeter view of the subject in her new book, Doughnut Economics. The book’s premise ...

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Ten years ago, a survey published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives found that 77 percent of the doctoral candidates in the leading American economics programs agreed or strongly agreed with the ...

Pascal Gobry wants you to stop thinking of economics as a science. That's the gist of his piece, but really the underlying point is he wants you to take economics less seriously. I think he's wrong ...

Atlantic Correspondent Richard Posner has good piece out this morning about British economists trying to explain to the Queen why economics failed so miserably to predict the financial crisis. He ...

As an economist who is well known in my town, I get calls from economics majors (or their parents) asking for help finding jobs. Here’s a summary of my advice for soon-to-graduate or recently ...

It’s easy to rag on economics as not being a “real” science, and I try not to do things that are too easy. But in recent weeks I’ve really started to wonder. It is fascinating, and frightening, to me ...