The book deals of course with the teaching of home economics in the United States, but its breadth of view and depth of thought are such as to make it international in scope and application.

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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 ...

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The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations.

Photo: Imago/Zuma Press This field has a long and noble history in economics. The Nobelists’ contribution is to lay out empirical data on the specific economic institutions that helped or ...

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The award came a day after a World Bank report showed that the world's 26 poorest countries - home to 40% of its most ... a measure of prosperity. The economics award is not one of the original ...

The economics prize is officially known as Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Unlike the prizes for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace ...