Basic Economics is a 653-page book, not including the index. One doesn’t have to start reading it at the beginning. Near the book’s end, there’s a section titled “Questions,” and it points the reader ...

Paul Solman: I’ve done numerous interviews with Paul Samuelson over the years. Invariably, he was funny, imaginative and deep. Particularly memorable was a long session on the basics of economics ...

“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treatises — if I can write its economics textbooks.” — Paul A. Samuelson What is the socially optimal amount of pollution in the ...

Allison Williams is an economics student at Pepperdine University and a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. If young Americans can’t even grasp basic economic concepts, we ...

"Basic Economics" is a 653-page book, not including the index. One doesn't have to start reading it at the beginning. Near the book's end, there's a section titled "Questions," and it points the ...

Paul Solman: On Tuesday, we posted the first transcript from a series of interviews I’ve done with Paul Samuelson over the years. This installment picks up where the last left off, explaining the most ...

When it comes to the scourge of “price-gouging,” Kamala Harris is on an island. Save the usual suspects such as Paul Krugman — who defended the vice president’s price-fixing scheme by insisting that ...