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, ...

Since 2012, Economics for Kids (EFK), one of the signature programs of the Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship (CEEE) at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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?” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the things that Steven Leake was taught at home — and was reinforced in home economics — was how to make biscuit dough. Not just to fill their bellies, but to stretch the food budget. “Mom ...

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, ...