The COVID pandemic has taught us a lot about public health, but there have also been plenty of lessons about economics. After all, economics is the study of maximizing well-being in the face of ...

Only 20 states in this country mandate that each and every high school graduate has some basic sense of personal finance and economics. And that makes no sense. While learning trigonometry about ...

As economics professors, we are often asked what economics is and why people should study it. Economics is a social science that examines how societies allocate limited resources to produce, ...

It’s easy to rag on economics as not being a “real” science, and I try not to do things that are too easy. But in recent weeks I’ve really started to wonder. It is fascinating, and frightening, to me ...

There are fewer women than men among both professors and students in the economics department at Tufts, according to Professor Dan Richards, chair of the Department of Economics. Richardstold the ...