"Stop the greed!" shouts Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.). Many Republicans are equally ignorant. When some Florida businesses raised prices in response to sudden demand during a crisis (a useful signaling ...

Most of our routine behaviors are not conscious choices. They’re either habits that run on autopilot, or they result from tacit judgments. Making conscious behavior choices in our long-term ...

Perhaps the greatest of all human weaknesses, and certainly the most infuriating, is our tendency to think that what is good for us individually is good for everyone else as well — to mistake what is ...

The pursuit of self-interest. Sounds like a harmless phrase, right? And yet no matter of modern political economy is more subject to controversy than the moral status of this motive force. What should ...

All week the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had been listening to the Secretary of State and other top officials as they explained—and defended—the current state of U.S. policy ...

The brand of economic theory loosely known as the Chicago School gets much of the credit — or blame, these days — for promoting the existence of “rational economic actors” who keep a free market ...

More and more people are turning to large language models like ChatGPT for life advice and free therapy, as it is sometimes perceived as a space free from human biases. A new study published in the ...

In our interconnected world, relationships, both personal and professional, thrive on reciprocity, empathy, and a balance of give-and-take. However, we've all encountered individuals who seem to ...