Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.

The fundamental principles of economics are based on human nature and do not change regardless of how they are interpreted. People behave certain ways on an individual and societal level based on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Goodman offers market-based solutions to public policy problems. Until we entered the Great Recession, most economists ...

Larry Summers gave an interesting speech yesterday defending and explaining the White House's economic policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His thesis was ...

Swedish wage-earner funds (WEFs) represented a distinctive form of socialization of investment intended to counter the dynamic inefficiency of capitalism and facilitate Post Keynesian economic policy.

This article explores the relationships between post-Keynesian economics and feminist economics. It distinguishes three key concepts in each tradition that recommend serious attention in the other ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. When the economy goes south, when “capitalism” fails, government at its best comes in and spends money, restoring the system to ...