There's an excellent little new humorous website called Spurious Correlations. Well, OK, humorous perhaps only to economics geeks but humorous all the same. And it's a site that contains a deep and ...

You might not have known it, but all those episodes of ‘‘The Simpsons’’ were just secret economics lessons. Turns out the yellowish, four-fingered cartoon characters have a lot of insight to offer on ...

The hottest ticket on Broadway is for a one-of-a-kind, one-man-show. For a limited time, Bruce Springsteen is playing songs and telling stories in... Bruce Springsteen On Broadway Comes With An ...

This post is by S. Abu Rizvi, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. An economist and former Honors College dean at the University of Vermont, he will be joining Lafayette ...

For the impassioned young men who led Burma’s struggle for independence in the 1930s, “capitalism” was an ugly word, almost as bad as “colonialism,” with which it was inextricably associated. In 1950, ...

It was one of the final economics lessons for Mary Persons High School seniors, as they spent the fake classroom money they’d saved up during the year. Twelfth-graders at the school are required to ...

Two economics reporters drive the length of an event known as The World's Longest Yard Sale — stretching from Alabama to Michigan — in search of economic wisdom. They discover a truth of behavioral ...

In 1886, Leo Tolstoy published a short story called “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” Its protagonist, a poor farmer named Pahóm, dreams of becoming a landowner. He thinks, “If I had plenty of land, I ...

One day last year, I skipped school to wait for acceptances from colleges. It was the final day that letters or emails were supposed to be sent out. I sat in front of my laptop by the front door for ...

Claudia Winkleman, a television presenter with a helmet of shiny hair, is not a typical economics teacher. Yet students should consider her game show. Those learning outside Britain may opt for any of ...

The WNBA began the second half of its 2025 season on Tuesday. And while the league undoubtedly hoped the attention would be on the competition between the teams in its marquee games, the antics of the ...