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Manchester University’s Post-Crash Economics Society (PCES) released a report recently into the way economics is currently taught at Ma...

The media attention surrounding French economist Thomas Piketty ’s new book Capital in the 21st Century is growing ever more fervent. H...

Imagine a modern economics textbook in three parts, the last two being Analysis and Modern Problems. What do you think would the first pa...

Two recent traffic accidents involving cyclists and cars - one a ‘dooring’ and one a that can only be described as a driver flat-out runnin...

On Monday night Four Corners aired a segment about the post-GFC Chinese stimulus and its massive impact on levels of investment and debt. ...

One strange claim in the economic debate that followed the financial crisis was the impact of uncertainty on the path of investment and ...

One thing you will notice early on about economics is the overuse of the term intuition. Typically the term is used like this — “Let me ...

I want to show how the morality on display in the movie 300 , in which babies are cast into a chasm for minor deformities or other weakne...

The case of Herbert Sukenik being paid $17 million in 2005 to leave his rent-controlled NYC apartment has been receiving a great deal ...

We commonly use stories to teach new ideas, but all too often end up taking the wrong lessons from them. My favourite example is the Coa...