In the increasingly vital yet bewildering world of financial economics, Darrell Duffie is both a deep-level theorist and a hands-on plumber.

Janet Currie began her career as a labor economist, with important work on game and bargaining theory, arbitration and negotiation strategy, and wage and employment determination. Today, as director of Princeton University’s Center for Health and Wellbeing, she explores the frontiers of...

Harvard economist on theories of trade and growth, and how institutions affect economic performance.

Harvard economist shares her passion for historical research in areas such as urban slavery, the labor history of American women and the economic impact of educational movements.

Economic theory has been unable to explain the bond between competition and innovation. Until now.

Economist Pete Klenow analyzes price differences-over time, among products and across countries-to shed light on some of economics' most contentious issues

University of California, Berkeley, economic historians on the evolution of economic understanding, FOMC forecasting and more.

A conversation with Eugene Fama, the intellectual father of efficient market theory, passive portfolio management, and value and small cap mutual funds.