Taking on the spin doctors of economics
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Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers By Gene Epstein John Wiley & Sons, 246 pages, $24.95.
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Erudite miscreants can teach us the tricks of their trade, and how not to be tricked again.
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âOvertreated,â by Shannon Brownlee, is the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve â but is so often misunderstood.
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A non-magical approach to building wealth.
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Greenspan charts our economic course in 'The Age of Turbulence.' An excerpt.
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Comment is free: Naomi Klein: Finance journalists have attacked my book, but I remain devoted to their papers. After all, they supplied the facts I used.
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Two economists known for their globally influential work on the forces behind economic booms and busts have won this year's Nobel Prize in economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced yesterday.
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Be careful when presented with methods that claim to time the market.
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By Michael Hiestand  Digesting TV ratings is like doing taxes: You can spin the numbers.
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A team of expert economists prepares to meet for the first time to try to improve Scotland's economy.
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Finn Kydland, now an economics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was recognized for his contributions to macroeconomics.
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Two economists whose work paved the way for success in the fight against inflation in Britain and other countries were rewarded with the Nobel prize yesterday.
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For a doctor in economics who was taught by two Nobel Prize winners, John Snow appears to display a weak grasp on the fundamentals of the science.
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Busting the small-cap risk myth once and for all.
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The United States is facing the possibility of a severe economic correction. Yet most of the causes of such a correction are, for the most part, being completely ignored in preference to partisan bickering. It is the proverbial elephant in the living room - except it is not just one, but several elephants that everyone is doing their best to ignore. While the likelihood that any of these issues could result in disaster is low, these are issues worth taking the time to discuss.
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The renewed appetite for art as an investment is drawing attention to a small number of scholars who have been applying economics to this new asset class.
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Economists are divided over whether the rise in prices will be short-lived.