“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence,” the great economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” ...

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ever since Nobel laureates George Akerlof and Daniel Kahneman created a 1987 UC Berkeley course that broke the rigid barrier between psychology and economics, the ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In the summer of 2020, when many college campuses were still coming to grips with the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, students of ...

The American Economic Association has awarded its John Bates Clark Medal to Matthew Rabin, a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley. The award is given biennially to an ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- One item on President Biden agenda is to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. There is a movement afoot called One Fair Wage, to push for just that. Although ...

He says he focuses on the economics of e-commerce and the internet, spent many years teaching at Stanford before Berkeley, and has studied antitrust economics as well. He’s also worked for eBay ...

UC Berkeley professor of economics, David Card was awarded the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel on Monday. This will be campus’s sixth Nobel Prize in ...

Suzanne Scotchmer, UC Berkeley professor of law, economics and public policy, died Jan. 30 after a short battle with intestinal cancer. She was 64. Scotchmer, who joined the campus faculty as an ...