Microeconomics and macroeconomics are two distinct branches of economics. Microeconomics focuses on individuals and groups, including companies, while macroeconomics looks at the behavior of national ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Mike Walden is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University and is a regular contributor to WRAL TechWire. RALEIGH – Every time there ...

Imagine State Department heavyweight Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 or Obama-era U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman ’85 as students in what is now Princeton’s School of Public and International ...

Economics can seem as if it is an obscure subject, in that you haven't had the chance to study it much, but parts of it can be very understandable. A simple definition of economics is the study of how ...

Physicists look at the big world of planets, stars, galaxies, and gravity. But they also study the minute world of atoms and the tiny particles that comprise those atoms. Economists also look at two ...

Microeconomics explains how supply and demand determine prices; shifts in either affect pricing inversely. Investors gain from understanding microeconomics, identifying monopolistic markets and ...

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 ...