In the field of economic history, the causes and consequences of the Industrial Revolution loom large. Competing theories point to the role of institutions, scientific achievements, and bourgeois ...

The Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley for work that has helped to craft more efficient and stable markets. Shapley, who was educated at Princeton and ...

Yes, Patrick T. Harker is the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, playing a major role in shaping the country’s monetary policies. But Harker began his career as an engineer, and ...

THIS was the title of a paper presented on March 25 before a joint meeting of the Institutions of Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers by Sir Frank Gill, who explained that his purpose was to ...

The course introduces students to fundamental concepts in economics and finance in the context of decisions that arise in contemporary planning and management of social and environmentally-relevant ...

Successful economic development has been an elusive target in many countries of the Global South. Considerable intellectual effort has been spent on this issue over many decades with mixed results. A ...