I read the Little House on the Prairie books for the details about eating ... In eighth grade, they did offer a home economics class, but my mother put her foot down: I would be taking woodworking ...

It's the whole gamut of life skills,” said Christina Lloyd, a family and consumer sciences teacher in Center Ridge, Arkansas. The focus of her classes includes both hard skills, like financial ...

The book deals of course with the teaching of home economics in the United States, but its breadth of view and depth of thought are such as to make it international in scope and application.

A tax credit to buy houses, for example, might end up benefiting home sellers more than home ... Read “The Little Book of Economics.” Don’t be fooled by its compact form and breezy writing ...

A household needed to earn $107,700 to afford a new single-family home and pay property taxes and insurance costs in the third quarter of this year, according to a new report from Oxford Economics.

Princeton University Press publishes the most influential and groundbreaking books in economics and finance, books that actively influence how the field defines and redefines itself through a broad ...

The economics of signalling was best articulated by Michael Spence, a Nobel prizewinner. In 1973 Mr Spence developed a simple model of how the labour market works. There are two kinds of job ...

Destructive land use, mismanagement and climate change are fueling a water disaster set to wreak havoc on economies and lives, a new report warns ...

the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Daron Acemoglu is Institute Professor of Economics at MIT. He is the co-author (with James Robinson ...

A brand-new Industrial Technology and Home Economics Department was commissioned at Queen’s College yesterday afternoon, a release from the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

While many people may think of money when they hear the word "economics," that’s only one aspect of this broad field. Economics majors analyze social systems — including markets, corporations ...

I’m essentially a functioning human being (low-frequency functional, but still), so I know I can’t be the only one. This ...