The first edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics by David A. Moss was published in 2007—just as one of the world's great economic downturns was taking off. The second edition has just been ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) For the best part of two centuries, the principle of“comparative advantage” has been a foundation stone of economists' understanding of international trade, both of why it ...

Shannon Fiecke’s Monday column, “Steel tariffs are U.S. protectionism at its worst,” misapplies basic principles of economics. Although Fiecke is correct that the tariffs imposed by the Bush ...

Simply sign up to the German economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Michael Pettis is a Beijing-based associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In a New York Times ...

DURING the 1990s, the concept of comparative advantage served as the economic foundation for agricultural production, guiding the cultivation of crops and livestock. At the time, economists emphasised ...

The great mathematician Stanislaw Ulam challenged the great economist Paul Samuelson to name a principle in the social sciences that was both true and nonobvious. Samuelson thought for a bit, then ...

Students who take Economics 101 usually hear a story about international trade. It goes like this: "There's a guy in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, who is really good at growing avocados. There's ...

Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike of Rivers State has once again raised the ante of national consciousness of how to grow and sustain the country’s economy, with his very unequivocal advocacy for states to ...