Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Over 50 years ago, economist William Baumol noted that economics was a theory of the economy that left no place for entrepreneurship.

Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. The subject of this course is microeconomics, which examines the decision making of individuals and firms with regard to consumption, ...

Behavioral economics combines elements of economics and psychology to understand how and why people behave the way they do in the real world. It differs from neoclassical economics, which assumes that ...

Economics is split between analysis of how the overall economy works and how single markets function Physicists look at the big world of planets, stars, galaxies, and gravity. But they also study the ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A new study finds that a light-touch intervention—what one of the authors calls a “classic nudge ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Preston Cooper writes about the economics of higher education. By now, it’s a well-known fact that your salary after graduating ...

Recruited athletes are more likely to concentrate in economics than the rest of the student body, according to data from The Herald’s First-Year Poll. Poll data found that about 17% of recruited ...