Read more economics stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1650/economics.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:14:16 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72736/soros-to-spend-50m-to-reinvent-economics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGeorge Soros has decided to spend $50 million to launch a new think tank charged with reinventing the field of economics, which the Hungarian-American billionaire calls "a dogma whose time has passed." The Institute of New Economic Thinking, whose board members include luminaries such as Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs,...http://www.newser.com/story/72736/soros-to-spend-50m-to-reinvent-economics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Oct 2009 9:44:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69970/winter-babies-real-problem-less-educated-mothers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor years, economists have been trying to explain why winter babies have it so tough. In study after study, those born in winter consistently perform worse in school, earn less, and are less healthy than peers born at other times of year. Now Notre Dame economists Kasey Buckles and Daniel...http://www.newser.com/story/69970/winter-babies-real-problem-less-educated-mothers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 22 Sep 2009 8:00:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69347/utilities-turn-to-peer-pressure-to-nudge-customers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWould you be more likely to rein in your energy use if you knew it would save money, or if you knew your neighbors used less? Traditional economists assume the former—that consumers do what is in their best interest—but companies are ditching that notion in favor of behavioral...http://www.newser.com/story/69347/utilities-turn-to-peer-pressure-to-nudge-customers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 14 Sep 2009 8:57:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68964/fed-has-field-of-economics-in-its-pocket.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Federal Reserve has essentially bought out the economics profession, writes Ryan Grim in a Huffington Post investigation. The Fed employs or contracts with so many economists that it's a "career liability" for any independent-minded one to criticize policy, writes Grim. This might explain why the Fed has largely escaped...http://www.newser.com/story/68964/fed-has-field-of-economics-in-its-pocket.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 09 Sep 2009 15:09:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68620/krugman-how-economists-blew-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBelieve it or not, economists were, until about a year ago, congratulating themselves on a job well done. Now the dismal science is in shock, and Paul Krugman thinks he knows why. Economists, he writes in the New York Times Magazine , “mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.” They...http://www.newser.com/story/68620/krugman-how-economists-blew-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 04 Sep 2009 11:42:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67301/economist-rose-friedman-dead-at-98.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRose Friedman, economist and collaborator with husband and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, died yesterday of heart failure, the Chicago Tribune reports. Rose was the co-author of Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose , two foundational texts of the Chicago School of economics. Though birth records from her birthplace in modern-day...http://www.newser.com/story/67301/economist-rose-friedman-dead-at-98.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 14:34:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66525/only-2nd-stimulus-can-save-us-stiglitz.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPundits can't help but ask whether the winter's fiscal stimulus has failed, and for Joseph Stiglitz it has—because the Obama administration made "political compromises that caused it to be less effective than it could have been." For the Nobel Prize-winning economist, there is no option but a second stimulus...http://www.newser.com/story/66525/only-2nd-stimulus-can-save-us-stiglitz.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Aug 2009 7:12:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65290/barnes-obamas-an-economic-iiliterate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama has big plans for the economy, and that’s too bad because he knows nothing about it, Fred Barnes writes in the Weekly Standard . All of his proposals and angry jabs at Wall Street are counter to his professed interest in growth and job creation. “Obamanomics pays lip service...http://www.newser.com/story/65290/barnes-obamas-an-economic-iiliterate.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 25 Jul 2009 14:00:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64656/if-economists-fail-dont-blame-economics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEconomists have made some disastrous calls recently, but that doesn’t mean you should give up on economics, opines an editorial in the Economist . True, too few economists predicted the financial crisis, but the current backlash, which assumes that the dismal science is basically useless, has gone too far. “Economics is...http://www.newser.com/story/64656/if-economists-fail-dont-blame-economics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 17 Jul 2009 14:29:02 CDT