If there is one consistent theme in President Trump’s economic philosophy, it is that trade deficits are bad for the country and must be eliminated. This is the principal motivation for his recent ...

As Director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis, William Beach is the think tank's chief "number cruncher." He oversees Heritage's original statistical research on taxes, Social ...

Reviewed Works: Basic Principles of Economics and Their Significance for Public Policy Harry Gunnison BrownA Postscript and Questions, Being Volume II of Basic Principles of Economics Harry Gunnison ...

Economics has always had something of a problem defining itself. One economist, Jacob Viner, even offered the explanation that, “Economics is what economists do.” Viner’s smarty-pants explanation was ...

Some even consider them quaint, outdated, or simple-minded. Basic economic principles, however, are neither simplistic nor simple minded. They are, rather, quite sophisticated in their simplicity, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Students in a Purdue University agricultural economics course are learning about dollars and cents in a language they understand: the language of love. A textbook written by ...