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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...