To help you understand the world of business and the stock market, it's smart to have a good grasp of economics. It has two main fields: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macroeconomics looks at the ...

Picture this: you attend the university with the country’s top business school and you have friends who are “proud they’ve never taken an economics class” and can’t explain marginal utility to you.

"Economics 10: Principles of Economics" is the most popular class at Harvard this fall with 627 undergraduate students enrolled. The class is taught by renowned economist Gregory Mankiw, who was ...

First lesson: Economics is not about money. It's a way to see the world, a lens of great power and beauty. It can help us understand everything from the stock market to marriage and divorce to ...