John A. List will deliver Youngstown State University’s fall 2025 Paul J. Thomas Lecture in Economics at 6 p.m. Oct. 15.

Agricultural economist Charles Benbrook will lead a pair of discussions this week in Des Moines and Iowa City about pesticide use, agricultural economics and public health. The first event, “Pesticide ...

Since Donald Trump returned to office, one country has borne the brunt of his fury. “We’ve been ripped off by every country in the world,” he declared in April, “but China is the…‘chief-ripper-offer’” ...

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Abstract: In this lecture note, we introduce the basic concepts of game theory (GT), a branch of mathematics traditionally studied and applied in the areas of economics, political science, and biology ...

WHEN WESTERN countries began boycotting Russian oil in 2022, India saw an opportunity. Some 2.6m barrels a day (b/d) of crude once destined for Europe were available—at a sweet discount. India, which ...

Some seemingly great development ideas don’t work out as expected. One that famously flopped was to replace open-fire cooking used by 3 billion of the world’s poorest people with more efficient, less ...

Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government of the United States had limited power to tax. Therefore, large debts accumulated during the US War for Independence traded at deep ...

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Dr. Wolfers is a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan. These tariffs are going to hurt. A lot. By my calculations, this round of tariffs may be 50 times as painful as ...