Samuelson once famously said "I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws, if I can write its economics textbooks." By any measure, he did a great job. The first edition of Economics was published in 1948 ...

He read the entire textbook in a few days, took his first economics class, and the rest is history. Card will be the first to admit that his branch of economics, labor economics, is often seen as ...

More than any particular dish, Banerjee remembers the ritual order of eating the dishes. “You’d get scolded for eating your ...