A home economics class at Howard University in Washington, circa 1920. Early African American educators developed domestic science as a means of “educating moral leaders who would lift up their ...

Those readers whose memories of home economics class are dominated by muffin tins and sewing machines might be surprised to learn about Caroline Hunt, an early innovator in the field. Hunt had no ...

Steven Medema, author of The Economics Book: From Xenophon to Cryptocurrency, 250 Milestones in the History of Economics, reveals the very first of those milestones: Works and Days, an 8th century B.C ...

The history of economic thought traces the evolution of ideas about production, distribution and exchange from antiquity to the present. Its narrative begins with early reflections on wealth in ...

The best book to read if you are interested in the history of economic ideas. First published in 1953, it covers some of the most consequential early economists, from Adam Smith to Thomas Malthus to ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...