Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

CONSUMPTION, production, and investment decisions of individuals, households, and firms often affect people not directly involved in the transactions. Sometimes these indirect effects are tiny. But ...

Introductory-level economics uses supply and demand curves to identify the "ideal" price for a product, service or other economic activity. In Econ 101, these curves assume that the economy is working ...

Externalities are the incidental effects that the activities or actions of one party have on another party. Positive externalities occur when the actions of a person or entity have a positive impact ...

There are differences between private returns or costs and the costs or returns to society as a whole Consumption, production, and investment decisions of individuals, households, and firms often ...

Wine growers everywhere fear spring frosts. New vine buds emerge in the spring and are highly susceptible to freezing temperatures which can kill them and result in significant crop loss for the year.

THE logic behind congestion pricing—tolling roads to maintain free-flowing traffic conditions—is pretty straightforward. When a driver enters a road space, he receives some benefit (the mobility ...

PRESIDENT OBAMA has made news by making it known that he is considering a bank tax of some sort, ostensibly to help recoup the cost of the government's financial interventions. It's not clear what ...

A new coronavirus is here. It is highly contagious, and case numbers are climbing. New York is the epicenter in the United States. This feels terribly familiar, even reminiscent of March 2020. And yet ...