This interview is part of our “Econ Extra Credit” project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core-Econ together with our listeners. When you think ...

University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers says critics who claim economists are “terrible forecasters” should read his ...

Instead, Mankiw’s power derives from his position as the author of one of the most widely used introductory college economics textbooks. Chances are that if you decided to study college ...

For students, what a textbook says is ground truth. But for nearly 15 years, leading introductory economics textbooks gave students an outdated or incomplete explanation of how the Federal Reserve ...

Even on Amazon, the average price of a new copy of one of the best-selling economics textbooks, “Principles of Economics” by Greg Mankiw, can be more than $250 (and retail for a hardcover ...

Was Paul Heyne an ethicist who thought like an economist or was he instead an economist who thought like an ethicist? It was ...

He has also collaborated on an alternative economics textbook with Howard Sherman, emeritus economics professor at the University of California, Riverside. I asked them why the world needs yet ...

A new version of a widely-used economics textbook, "Principles of Economics," no longer uses Tiger Woods as an example to explain economic theory. Previous editions of the textbook used an example ...

Harvard economist Gregory Mankiw, renowned for his textbook “Principles of Economics” (1997), recently posted on his blog: “Value-added tax (VAT) is not a trade barrier.” His comment came ...

Yet another piece of "olden days" text, typically titled "How to Be a Good Wife" or "The Good Wife's Guide," is said to have originated with a 1950s-era home economics textbook. Is it real ...

You might expect to find economic concepts in the pages of an economics textbook. But you know where you can really see a lot of economic concepts in action? Buffets. Here at Planet Money ...