The tax overhaul bill before Congress has a professed rationale that rests on economic theory. As neuroscientists who study decision making, we would like to raise a very serious objection to this ...

Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on how mistaken assumptions by top U.S. policymakers have worsened the financial crisis. It has been three years since the worst financial collapse ...

The Southern Economic Journal features original, refereed scholarly articles in all areas of economics as well as contributions on the pedagogy of economics. The journal also contains occasional ...

Ironically, an acatallactic pseudo-theory of money that emerged from a school of thought that rejected theory in favor of an ...

It has recently been suggested that heterodox economics can benefit from an engagement with classical surplus theory. However, caution is often recommended due to the ideological concepts that are ...

Explore the connection between neoclassical economics and neoliberalism, focusing on the shared principles of free markets, ...

Classical economic theory defines the factors of production as the three broad categories of input -- capital, labor and land (or natural resources) -- that contribute to the production of finished ...

Economist Ha-Joon Chang explains why the school of Neoclassical economics that rose in the 19th/early 20th century – now today’s dominant school of economics – decided they wanted to be scientists.