Explore the connection between neoclassical economics and neoliberalism, focusing on the shared principles of free markets, lower taxes, and reduced regulation.

The time is ripe for good economic analysis from a progressive perspective. The Left has tended to have an understandable visceral dislike/distrust of markets. But this has had the effect of ceding ...

Economist Ha-Joon Chang explains why the school of Neoclassical economics that rose in the 19th/early 20th century – now today’s dominant school of economics – decided they wanted to be scientists.

While finance historians credit Harry Markowitz as the father of Modern Portfolio Theory, he enjoys pointing to Shakespeare as an early advocate of diversified portfolios. In “The Merchant of Venice,” ...

In a classic case of ‘they would say that, wouldn't they?’, economic textbook authors McTaggart, Findlay and Parkin have recently defended economics from the criticism that it failed in not predicting ...

Steve Keen is a fellow contributor here at Forbes so this isn't a declaration of all out jihad upon his ideas. Rather, it's to show that one of his contentions about economics and the economy might ...

JOURNALIST Christopher Hayes recently wrote an article in which he describes taking Allen Sanderson’s introductory economics course at the University of Chicago. Mr Hayes claims to have found the ...