IN AUGUST 1960 Wolfgang Stolper, an American economist working for Nigeria’s development ministry, embarked on a tour of the country’s poor northern region, a land of “dirt and dignity”, long ruled by ...

Consider an economy in which various types of labor are used to produce consumption, but not all types of labor are useful for upgrading the stock of organization capital–that is, for replacing old ...

Wolfgang F. Stolper, 89, an economist whose work included a theory used to explain the effect of international trade on wages, died Monday in Ann Arbor, Mich., during surgery to clear a blood clot.

Samuelson made such diverse contributions to his field – ranging from welfare economics, theories of consumption, prices, capital accumulation, economic growth, public goods, finance and international ...

This week “The Economist explains” is given over to economics. For each of six days until Saturday this blog will publish a short explainer on a seminal idea. DOES trade hurt wages? Or, more precisely ...