There's an excellent little new humorous website called Spurious Correlations. Well, OK, humorous perhaps only to economics geeks but humorous all the same. And it's a site that contains a deep and ...

You might not have known it, but all those episodes of ‘‘The Simpsons’’ were just secret economics lessons. Turns out the yellowish, four-fingered cartoon characters have a lot of insight to offer on ...

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, ...

Two economics reporters drive the length of an event known as The World's Longest Yard Sale — stretching from Alabama to Michigan — in search of economic wisdom. They discover a truth of behavioral ...