Believe it or not, you can learn a lot from fiction. Some might say that’s because fiction often imitates real life. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily help explain why some of the silliest comic ...

Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly, by John Quiggin, Princeton University Press, 408 pages, $29.95 On the radio and in his writings for The Nation, ...

If you understand a few principles of economics, you can see such principles playing out in your personal life every day. I’ve said that to micro econ classes for 40 years. And it certainly was true ...

You might not have known it, but all those episodes of ‘‘The Simpsons’’ were just secret economics lessons. Turns out the yellowish, four-fingered cartoon characters have a lot of insight to offer on ...

With Halloween just a few days away, the trick-or-treating is about to begin. Americans are predicted to spend $3 billion on Halloween candy this year, and about the same on costumes and decorations.

I’m currently working on a project related to economic rent-seeking in higher education. As part of the research, I’m combing various histories of American higher education to learn how colleges have ...

“Financial education.” This was my condensed response to a question in a recent Publishers Weekly interview: “What could have helped improved the lives of so many people during the Covid-19 crisis?” ...

There's an excellent little new humorous website called Spurious Correlations. Well, OK, humorous perhaps only to economics geeks but humorous all the same. And it's a site that contains a deep and ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Images: AFP/Getty Images/ABC/MSNBC/Zuma Press/Shutterstock Composite: Mark Kelly The best ...

A reader of my blog had recently recommended an economics book, Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt. Having an advanced degree in economics, I asked if he thought I would still find it ...

Senior Halle Nett, right, sells a roll to a student Friday as part of her Whiteland Community High School economics class. In the large group instruction room at Whiteland Community High School, ...