In most my dealings with questions of economic development I run across men and women who view themselves as pragmatic doers, totally immune from anything quite as impractical as academic research.

Economic theory has its roots in antiquity. As early as the 18 th century BC, the Babylonian King Hammurabi’s Code includes references to property rights, contracts, credit and economic justice. In ...

ABCDE 2014 is intended to be a stock-taking of the foundations and methods of development economics. Over the last two decades, development economics has risen ...

We don't always behave the way economic models say we will. We don't save enough for retirement. We order dessert when we're supposed to be dieting. We give donations when we could keep our money for ...

James Morley receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Welcome to our series on economic theories that are changing the way we think. Today, James Morley explains how the very concept of ...

The competing theory, associated with the mid-20th century English economist John Maynard Keynes, argues that market economic activities are not inherently benign and can even be downright dangerous.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One evening in December, after a long day working from home, Jennifer Drouin, 30, headed out to buy groceries in central Amsterdam ...