Editor’s Note: On Making Sen$e this week, we’ve been publishing Paul Solman’s never-aired conversation with economic historian Gregory Clark about his 2007 book ...

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Supply-side economics focuses on aggregate supply fueling economic growth. Supply-side economics (also called trickle-down economics and Reaganomics) is a macroeconomic theory that focuses on ...

Once upon a time, in the middle of the last century, America had a thriving economy in which the middle class was at the center and everyone -- poor and rich alike -- did better. But then, starting in ...

James Surowiecki (via Andrew) makes a great point about the bonus backlash: Myriad experiments in behavioral economics have found that people are willing to pay to punish members of a group whom they ...

A recession begins when the economy reaches a peak of economic activity and ends when the economy reaches its trough. Since trend reversal precedes growth turning negative, recessions as defined by ...