Princeton University's Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library has completed a two-year project to process all of its economics-related public policy collections to modern standards. These collections ...

Princeton economist Paul Krugman, acclaimed in his field for insights into international trade patterns that overturned longheld theories about the global economy before he rose to popular distinction ...

This is a persuasive narrative, but make no mistake: Princeton’s “economic diversity” is a myth. Although the numbers have improved since the 2017 article from The New York Times, just 30.8 percent of ...

The study of poverty and economic development has been a tricky field, rife with measurement problems and difficulties squaring theory with real-life patterns of consumption and income.

Deaton, who holds both U.S. and British citizenship, credited Princeton colleague and 2002 Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman for sparking his interest in the study of subjective well-being.

As students walk into their first ECO 100: Introduction to Microeconomics lecture at Princeton, they are unknowingly stepping into a classroom where economic theory trumps economic reality. The tenor ...

Princeton economics professor Alan Blinder. Courtesy of Princeton University’s Office of Communications. Blinder: I have the phrase in there jokingly, “It’s a new world, Tevye.” ...

Prosecutors said Martin Armstrong, former head of Princeton Economics, defrauded 139 investors of about $700 million between 1992 and 1999. Armstrong, 56, faces up to five years in prison and a ...

That’s the question two Princeton economics professors set out to answer in a new study.The answer: The impressively large gap seems to have little to do with the presidents and policies themselves.

The median family income of a student from Princeton is $186,100, and 72% come from the top 20 percent. About 1.3% of students at Princeton came from a poor family but became a rich adult.

The late Princeton University psychologist Daniel Kahneman changed our understanding of how we make decisions, especially financial ones, proving that we are far more irrational than we think.