Noah Smith

No longer is economic theory merely a glorified way of using mathematics to tell allegories about the world- now it has practical engineering applications

Enrolment at four-year for-profit colleges is in free fall, dropping 13.7 per cent from fall 2014 to fall 2015

Why is China making this proposal? One possibility is that the government is afraid that the trade war is having a chilling effect on the country's economy

It's important to note that the economics profession isn't in universal agreement about the issue

Renewable energy technology is already unstoppable

For a model to retain currency it must include new, emerging risk factors

Japan is not just a source of crucial financial resources - its history of managing to build infrastructure even while being a strongly democratic country can serve as a source of inspiration

There is a possibility that the tech-stock market will turn down. But the current situation looks very little like the dot-com bubble of the late '90s

Forget anecdotes, there is quantitative evidence showing that economics is uniquely biased against women