Economic cycles are normal ebbs and flows in the economy that happen in a repeating pattern. Read more about them inside.

View post: Amazon is selling a 2-in-1 laptop and tablet for $80 that's the ultimate tech gift Supply-side economics (also called trickle-down economics and Reaganomics) is a macroeconomic theory that ...

ECONOMISTS develop economic models to explain consistently recurring relationships. Their models link one or more economic variables to other economic variables (see “What Are Economic Models,” F&D, ...

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 ...

It's nearly impossible to read the news these days without running across mentions of economic inequality. So what is economic inequality, and how does it impact you? Here's what to know about this ...

Just how important is money? Few would deny that it plays a key role in the economy.­ During the Great Depression of the 1930s, existing economic theory was unable either to explain the causes of the ...

Anitra Nelson is Vice-President of the Australia New Zealand Society of Ecological Economics (ANZSEE), has been on the ANZSEE executive (2015–19) and is Chair of the Organising Committee for the ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...