The study of microeconomics focuses on individuals and businesses, while macroeconomics focuses on the decisions made by governments and countries. In macroeconomics, we examine the economy as a whole ...

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 573-594 (22 pages) This paper examines the relationship between modern theories of microeconomics and macroeconomics and, more generally, it ...

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Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a ...

This past semester, our colleague Eleanor Clemans-Cope argued that the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) ought to replace its requirement that students learn introductory ...

Studying economics helped new Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) alumnus Russell Zhang discover a passion for building microeconomics models. Now, he is graduating with a 4.15 cumulative grade ...

We conduct comprehensive analysis of the policy measures that aim at enhancing economic growth in Japan. To this end, we focus on three aspects of the policy analysis, i.e., microeconomics, ...

If asked to compile a list of economists’ mistakes over the last decade, I would not know where to start. Somewhere near the top would be failure to predict the global financial crisis. Even higher on ...

Economists work at the intersection of the social sciences, mathematics and business. They use statistical methods and theories about small- and large-scale markets to analyze economic performance and ...