Explore how happiness economics measures individual satisfaction through surveys, analyzing economic factors like income, employment, and their impact on well-being.

Environmental and natural resource economics deals with the economics of pollution control, policies and economic incentives for dealing with pollution and the basic economic principles for the ...

MIT researchers have developed a method that generates more accurate uncertainty measures for certain types of estimation.

Behavioral economics combines information about human behavior and outcomes with more standard methods of economic analysis. Behavioral economics has been applied in various contexts such as ...

Discover how base-year analysis measures economic changes, eliminates inflation effects, and aids in financial growth ...

Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly, by John Quiggin, Princeton University Press, 408 pages, $29.95 On the radio and in his writings for The Nation, ...

THE object of the presidential address by Mr. R. F. Harrod to Section F (Economics) on method is threefold: (1) An attempt is made to show the kind of knowledge on which the practical recommendations, ...

“In this book, I have summed up how to put your space in order in a way that will change your life forever.” This is the ambitious first sentence of Marie Kondo’s best-selling manifesto, The ...

THE “prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel”, as it is officially known, sometimes struggles to command the same respect as its counterparts. Though awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy ...

This article outlines a set of economic criteria to assess an immigrant-receiving country's immigration policy from three perspectives. These three perspectives include the resident population, the ...

This article was taken from the April 2014 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...