When the price of most types of products goes up, demand for them tightens. Except for a couple of special cases.

SINCE 1986 The Economist has produced the Big Mac index as a light-hearted gauge of whether currencies are at their “correct” level. The famous burger is a good test of currency valuations ...

French economic forecaster, who some call "the world's most accurate economist," Christophe Barraud predicts Donald Trump to win the 2024 presidential election. Barraud is the chief economist and ...

We are seeking interns to write about foreign affairs for The Economist. The internships will be London-based and paid. Anyone is welcome to apply, regardless of citizenship or any characteristic ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. With his electric motorcycle resting on the curbside, Stephen Omusugu explains the economics. The two-wheel-taxi ...

OpenAI has hired its first chief economist: Aaron Chatterji, formerly the chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Joe Biden and a senior economist in President Barack Obama’s ...

It’s a question that inspired three academics awarded this year’s Nobel prize in economics—Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT, and James Robinson of the University of Chicago.

If Starship lives up to its promise, its combination of vast size and bargain-basement price could provide a big boost to the economics of space in general—and of Starlink in particular.

Economics is the study of how societies organize production, distribution, and the exchange of goods and services and about choices on how scarce resources are allocated to satisfy human wants. Who ...

Vice President Kamala Harris frequently says that if elected she will build a "strong middle class," even as the Biden administration pushes for an electric vehicle mandate that one economist says ...

Her expertise is in personal finance and investing, and real estate. Positive economics describes and explains economic phenomena in objective and measurable terms, while normative economics ...

While many people may think of money when they hear the word "economics," that’s only one aspect of this broad field. Economics majors analyze social systems — including markets, corporations ...