Today, home building slowed in May and Federal Reserve officials will continue to analyze incoming economic data.

In data center construction, leaders prioritize speed over short-term savings, deploying robots, drones and automation within days to accelerate timelines. The question has shifted from “Does this ...

Professors Salter and Cutsinger make a case for economics education as a key for Gen Z's success in new AI world.

A small cadre of the wealthy have gained levels of economic and political power not seen for 120 years. One reaction is to ...

The NBER Project on the Economics of Digitization provides new insights on the economic impact of the digitization of both commercial and personal activities, including the rise of digital media and ...

Economics isn’t just a number’s game. Human irrationality is so intrinsically tied up in the human need to rationalize that financial decisions are often made when our conscious brains are held for ...

In the United States today, life expectancy is falling as suicides, drug addiction, alcoholism, and heart disease are inexorably on the rise, contrary to the trends in other First World countries. One ...

The effects of the war in Iran are squeezing consumers, businesses and governments around the world, raising the prices of ...

Drones that cost $10,000 to $100,000. Missiles that cost millions to shoot them down. Lasers that cost $10 per shot. Memorize those numbers. The conflicts over the next decade and beyond are going to ...

Our economics degree program is designed to prepare students for positions as economic and statistical analysts in business, government and nonprofit organizations, and for the teaching profession.

Explore how private interests, public institutions, and interest groups shape social issues. Make positive change through our economics program. Navigate the complex world of decision-making. Major in ...

As an economist who is well known in my town, I get calls from economics majors (or their parents) asking for help finding jobs. Here’s a summary of my advice for soon-to-graduate or recently ...