There's a debate about the meaning of economic scarcity going on all over the Web, most recently set off by Chris Anderson's "Economy of Abundance" talk at Pop!Tech, that David Hornik and Ross ...

LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Economics used to be defined as the study of the distribution of scarce resources. The word, deriving from ancient Greek and Latin, originally signified the ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo discusses the role of women in her field. Alongside her husband and two others, Esther Duflo won a Nobel Prize for Economics last year for her experimental ...

One of the most famous bets in the past half-century — at least among economists — wasn’t about the Super Bowl or a presidential election. No, it was about the price of metals. That is, whether five ...