Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.

Delong, a professor of economics at U.C. Berkeley, is the author Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of ...

Andrew Leigh’s The Shortest History of Economics is the latest in a series of such histories, mostly focused on particular countries. It begins with a striking mini-history of household lighting, ...

Since 2015, American politics has been riven by deep splits over economic policy. The tilt toward free markets that began in the mid-1970s and lasted roughly until the election of Barack Obama is a ...

Joel Mokyr GRD ’72 ’74, who received a master’s degree and a doctorate in economics from Yale, received the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday. According to the Nobel Prize press release, Mokyr, a ...