Learn about homo economicus, its origins, significance in economics, and the challenges to its rational decision-making model by modern behavioral economists.

Although neoclassical economics relies on assumptions that should have been discarded long ago, it remains the mainstream orthodoxy. Three recent books, and one older one, help to show why its staying ...

Like many students in the Economics Department at The New School for Social Research, Ebba Boye and Ingrid Kvangraven want to widen the lens through which we examine economies. Their approach to ...

As part of our Marketplace Economic Pulse series, we examine the economy from a range of perspectives. Today, we hear from Clara Mattei, a professor of economics at the University of Tulsa In Oklahoma ...