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 ...

Much fuss has been made about green jobs. Do they exist, and are more "brown" jobs displaced for every green one? Given all the political rhetoric, it's not surprising that there is also considerable ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microeconomics is one of the major focus areas within the academic field of economics. While the scope and methods of microeconomics can be complex, its overall focus is relatively straightforward.

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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 ...

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 ...