The Minimum Wage is a wildly important and contentious aspect of modern economic life. But whether you believe it needs to go up or be eliminated altogether there's an important question to ask, why does it exist at all?

Prof. Marlene Kim says her research has revealed that African-American women face triple penalties from race and gender bias, and the combination of those two<br/>

Economists have gone to great lengths to write humans out of economics, pushing self-interest and generally providing two choices—faith in markets or the state. INET grantee and University of Southern California Sociologist Manuel Pastor...

Understand the conditions for using a normal model to analyze one-variable data sets. Review different types of distributions, such as uniform, skewed, and multi-peaked, and emphasize the importance of visually examining the data before...

A 5 minute fun overview of Hammurabi's Code, one of the earliest and most influential legal documents to be pounded out by Mesopotamia.