The economic downturn has left many Americans focusing on their basic needs. Until they can be addressed, all other items are beyond their focus and attention.

The slump in jobs is a painful lesson in basic economics, revealing how increased costs lead to fewer jobs available.

Given recent economic news, I wonder whether our leadership has even a fundamental understanding of how a free-market economy works. Here’s a basic layout. The cost of goods is determined by the ...

Most reasonable people would agree with the following: taxes are not pro-growth economic strategies, are borne by consumers, and do not increase the number of jobs.

It would have been refreshing to see an understanding of this basic principle — which is perfectly obvious when you think about it — by the shouting masses recently, or at least by our congressman, ...

“What would happen if government took over the gig economy?” wonders Soleil Ho of the San Francisco Chronicle, concerned that, in grocery stores, “gig work has created a combative, stressful ...

In the Spring 1971 issue of this Journal, Jerome Rothenberg discussed ways of relating economics to the problems of modern society. Thomas B. Duff, a high school teacher, explains how Rothenberg's ...

Though Las Vegas is perhaps best known as a tacky City of Sin where what happens within its limits stays there, its fortunes and misfortunes provide us with broad lessons about how economies work.