Unfortunately, all of these Econ 101 textbooks, lectures and seminars can be boiled down to a fundamentally flawed idea: homo economicus. Homo economicus is a core tenet of the study of economics, a ...

Economics 101 This is the first of three articles intended to unpack complex economic issues, expose myths and provide context for the news and social media reporting on the economy, debt and ...

It’s what University of Connecticut law professor James Kwak has been saying for years: those ubiquitous supply and demand curves aren’t as simple as Econ 101 lets on.

Econ 101 teaches us that people are selfish and ruthless — but they only act that way because they're taught to believe it Opinion by Paul Constant ...

The Washington Post is proud to introduce “Econ 101: Navigating the Economy,” a new line of coverage focusing on current day financial themes affecting all Americans. The series underscores ...

Both parties supported economic rescue or stimulus packages in 2008 and 2020. Republicans have passed numerous tax cuts, and House GOP rules favor further tax cuts, which would add to the deficit ...

At the time of my taking, Fall 1988, Econ 101 at the University of Illinois was held in Foellinger Auditorium, 1000+ students in the lecture with a raft of smaller discussion sections staffed by grad ...

EDITOR: In the June 30 column, ''Long-term impact of outsourcing,'' Sacramento Bee columnist Peter Schrag finally stated the obvious: education alone is not going to solve our economic problems.

As a lifelong student of economics, I sometimes wish I could time-travel back to periods that only economists might find intriguing—for example, the 1970s energy crisis, immediately followed by ...

In his otherwise excellent column “Wealth Is Knowledge” (Inside View, Feb. 7), Andy Kessler makes a common Econ 101 mistake. He says, “You were taught about supply and demand curves and that ...