Understand the income approach to GDP, where total expenditures equal the income from goods and services in an economy.

“The IT department gives $%^&*! service.” Have you heard that? In pretty much every company I’ve worked for or visited, that phrase was common. Or how about this: “Sales spends too much time partying ...

Positive economics is a fact-based analysis of what is occurring in an economy, without making prescriptions of what should or should not be happening.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the 10th anniversary of its New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) an interview ...

The United States' strategy of prioritising security over economic relations is seen as destabilising by Asian countries, which view their economic and security interests as inseparable. This suggests ...

Impact. Defining it is often difficult. Measuring it can be harder yet. And the final step—communicating impact—remains a formidable challenge for many organizations. Even in the midst of a climate ...

Economics provides a framework for understanding human behavior: the decisions made by individuals, firms, and governments attempting to satisfy their preferences and objectives as well as possible ...

After Amazon dropped its plans to build a new headquarters in New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized the loss of an estimated 25,000 jobs and $27 billion in tax revenue, calling it “the greatest ...

Prof. Gary Becker, AM'53, PhD'55, is regarded as one of the foremost economics scholars of the 20th century. The Nobel laureate broke new ground by approaching economics as the study of human behavior ...