Spending 31% less to fill your tank is hardly something to complain about, but don't assume falling gasoline prices will result in your fellow Americans driving any farther in 2015. Why not? It all ...

In his latest book, Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality, former technology executive and current University of Connecticut business law professor James Kwak argues that the lessons of ...

If you are a Wall Street master of the universe or a billionaire hedge fund manager, you face the same challenge as the aristocrats and industrialists of the past: How do you justify the vast economic ...

For a whole generation, Harvard professor Gregory Mankiw defined the conventional wisdom in economics. He taught the university’s introductory course for 14 years. I read his best-selling textbooks to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In January, James Kwak wrote about how basic economic principles can be ...

Economics experiments are rare in democratic societies. What we do see, though, are economic policy decisions that, often unintentionally, look a lot like uncontrolled economics experiments. Recently ...

What better way to learn about businesses than to visit them and hear from the people who run them? That was the idea behind Lighthouse Seventh-Day Adventist Christian School’s recent “Future ...