Once composed primarily of college and university professors in economics, the American Economic Association (AEA) now attracts 20,000+ members from academe, business, government, and consulting ...

R enowned economist Gregory Mankiw's "Economics 10: Principles of Economics" is the most popular class at Harvard this fall with 627 undergrads enrolled.

The ingenious thing about these graphs, which I've never before seen, is that they compare key recession indicators as a share of their pre-recession peaks.