Economic science has been corrupted by an insistence viewing human behaviour through equations and numbers instead of as ...

On Aug. 15, 1947, British colonial rule in South Asia officially ended. The four independent states that eventually emerged in its place — India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh — all faced urgent ...

Economic theory has evolved from classical notions of self-regulating markets towards more nuanced frameworks that recognise the role of institutions, market imperfections and policy interventions.

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Scotland—My recent travel in London and Scotland reminded me of my college days at the University of the Philippines School of Economics (UPSE) as I saw the statues of two great minds—Adam Smith and ...

The economy may be about the only human creation that works better in practice than in theory. Still, economists are busy churning out theories to explain the behavior of markets and investors.

Economic uncertainty, like we are living through right now, can make regular purchasing decisions challenging. Even more so decisions around big life moments, like changing your job, buying a house or ...