We’ve lost a great economist and a champion for Black equality, and for all working people. Bill was a rare public intellectual who combined first-rate economic analysis with a lifelong and ...

according to economists like Bankrate's Mark Hamrick. "I think this is probably going to eclipse the magnitude of the economic devastation, at least in the short term, of the great financial ...

Ronald Coase was one of those economists whose contributions were so significant and so longstanding that you assumed he had to be dead. But he wasn't, until yesterday, when he died at the age of 102.

Economists have long helped to shape policy on issues like taxes and health care. But flawed forecasts and arcane language have cost them credibility. By Ben Casselman Ben Casselman spoke to ...