There's an excellent little new humorous website called Spurious Correlations. Well, OK, humorous perhaps only to economics geeks but humorous all the same. And it's a site that contains a deep and ...

Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly, by John Quiggin, Princeton University Press, 408 pages, $29.95 On the radio and in his writings for The Nation, ...

It was one of the final economics lessons for Mary Persons High School seniors, as they spent the fake classroom money they’d saved up during the year. Twelfth-graders at the school are required to ...