NPR's Planet Money recently did a fun segment on the classic board game and its relationship to actual economics, featuring commentary from a couple of actual economists.
Also, none of these narrative summaries include critical appraisal of the methodological quality of included economics studies, or commentary on the economic questions, costing methods and analytic viewpoints adopted in such studies.
I realize they may just be practicing politics, but Senators Olympia Snowe and Jim DeMint serve up a basic misunderstanding of economics in their commentary on The Wall Street Journal's op-ed page today.
Santana was being called the best pitcher in baseball, who had grown too expensive for the Twins — a sad commentary on the economics of baseball, but a nicety Mets fans were not examining.
The my-currency-is-stronger-than-yours genre of financial commentary is a disgrace to economics and, more important, to common sense.
And it's a sad commentary on the state of economics when tenured professors at famous schools don't get that distinction.
Oresme presented his economic ideas in commentaries on the Ethics, Politics, and Economics, as well as an earlier treatise, De origine, natura, jure et mutationibus monetarum (c. 1360; "On the Origin, Nature, Juridical Status and Variations of Coinage").
He presented his economic ideas in commentaries on the Ethics, Politics, and Economics, as well as an earlier treatise, De origine, natura, jure et mutationibus monetarum, the first comprehensive work upon money.
In such later novels as Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890), he chose characters not only because they were commonplace but also because the stories he told about them were commentaries upon society, government, and economics.
