Learn how the marginal propensity to save (MPS) impacts economic decisions and calculations. Discover its role in Keynesian economics and how to calculate MPS effectively.

There is a small war going on between liberal and conservative economists about whether government stimulus packages increase or do not materially affect basic levels of economic activity. Liberals ...

According to Keynesian economic theory, many recessions have little or nothing to do with underlying structural economic problems. Instead, the theory holds, recessions are the result of a crisis in ...

In The Washington Times, businessman Mike Whalen (who's associated the free-market think tank NCPA) writes up an interesting take on why various federal stimulus program have tanked like the Titanic ...

This week “The Economist explains” is given over to economics. For each of six days until Saturday this blog will publish a short explainer on a seminal idea. WHEN Barack Obama sought to boost America ...

En un número reciente del American Economic Review, prominentes economistas presentan su visión sobre qué constituye el núcleo central de la teoria macroeconómica. Entre otros aspectos, coinciden en ...

Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, equities, fixed income, project management, and analytics. Investopedia / ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In recent weeks I have described how people think about risk. They use approaches very different from those ...

In a normal economy, 40% of new hires are people who switched right over from another job: Friday at Walmart, Monday at Target. The other 60% come from some mix of the unemployment lines and the ether ...

A key issue facing the new Obama administration is to what extent the economic stimulus should take the form of spending increases versus tax reduction. One way to think about the issue is the size of ...