Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Dec.17, 2025.

Regarding David Henderson’s “This Year’s Nobel Economist Makes Sense of Irrationality” (op-ed, Oct. 10): I find it fascinating that the Nobel committee and a majority of modern economists are so ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of United States citizens from across the country stormed the Capitol building in Washington D.C. while Congress was in session certifying the outcome of the presidential ...

People who graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1990s all have a variation of the same story: they know someone or they were that someone who quit a job at Dell Computer in ...

Adam Smith first coined the term "The Invisible Hand" in his important book "The Wealth of Nations." With this term he was trying to capture the idea that the marketplace would be self-regulating. The ...

Robert Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance is probably one of the best and most important works of the past quarter-century — in economics or in any other field. In contrast I found his new book Animal ...

Writing a Comment for this week’s magazine about the S.E.C.’s lawsuit against Goldman Sachs got me thinking again about the underlying reasons for the subprime crisis. Was it primarily driven by Wall ...

Review of Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason. By Justin E. Smith. Princeton University Press. 312 pp. $29.95. Centuries ago, the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz declared that ...