Microeconomics, on the other hand, drills down deeper, looking at specific industries or individual companies and studying trends and decision-making therein.

R enowned economist Gregory Mankiw's "Economics 10: Principles of Economics" is the most popular class at Harvard this fall with 627 undergrads enrolled.

ECON.4150 — Undergraduate Id: 005913 Offering: 1 Credits: 3-3 Description This course provides an introduction to the field of environmental and natural resource economics. It is designed to give ...

An introduction to economics. The microeconomics portion covers consumer choice, the firm, value and price theory, and distribution theory. The macroeconomics portion covers national income analysis, ...

Zarghamee, who has taught using the Core Econ textbook, spoke with Marketplace’s David Brancaccio about why intro-to-econ students should be versed in economic inequality.

Mankiw’s introduction to economics has set the tone not just at Harvard but for how Econ 101 is taught across the country.

How does race fit into intro econ courses? Gary Hoover of the University of Oklahoma said talking about race in Econ 101 would help increase diversity in the field.

The first intro-to-economics class often starts with the question: why are diamonds expensive and water cheap? After all, we need the latter to survive. The answer, of course, is scarcity, a ...

Specialization and trade are the key to economic prosperity argues Arnold Kling in an important new book, Specialization and Trade: A Re-Introduction to Economics. Kling has important insights ...