Paul Solman: I’ve done numerous interviews with Paul Samuelson over the years. Invariably, he was funny, imaginative and deep. Particularly memorable was a long session on the basics of ...

It pulls together articles from the Back to Basics column in the quarterly magazine that have been published since 2003. Editors at the magazine, which is published in Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish ...

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Back to basics, then? Yes, and what basics. This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Back to basics” ...

The American Economic Review is a general-interest economics journal. Established in 1911, the AER is among the nation's oldest and most respected scholarly journals in the economics profession and is ...

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In the 60 years after World War II, the United States built the world's greatest middle class economy, then unbuilt it. And if you want a single snapshot that captures the broad sweep of that ...

When it comes to economics, there's no reason to expect leading lawmakers to be Boehner struggles with the economic basics June 21, 2013, 6:10 AM PDT ...