History
This infamous text, released in 1776, kickstarted Classical economics.
What is The Wealth of Nations?
This data type looks at multiple entities during a single time period.
What is cross-sectional data?
This Federal Reserve Chair was appointed by Obama and directly preceded Powell.
Who is Janet Yellen?
This classical economist proposed the idea of comparative advantage in his book On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.
Who is David Ricardo?
This mathematician was the subject of the movie "A Beautiful Mind"
John Nash
This MIT economist was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1970.
Who is Paul Samuelson?
This data type looks at multiple entities across multiple time periods.
What is Panel-Data?
This 1970s phenomenon combined high inflation and unemployment.
What is Stagflation?
The home nation of David Ricardo.
What is Portugal?
This famous film involved a sports economist played by Jonah Hill.
What is Moneybag?
This economist famously said "in the long run we're all dead".
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
The name of the sample error term.
A form of open market operation that involves the large-scale purchasing of assets by the Fed to stimulate economic activity.
What is Quantitative Easing?
This tiny European nation, previously part of France, has the highest export-to-GDP ratio in the world.
What is Luxembourg?
This Nobel Prize-winning behavioural economist shared a scene with Selena Gomez in "The Big Short".
Richard Thaler
This economist wrote about population outgrowing food production, causing Thomas Carlyle to refer to economics as the "dismal science" in 1849.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
The acronym used to describe an OLS estimator according to the Gauss-Markov theorem.
What is B.L.U.E.?
The alternate name for a 0.5% rate cut.
What is a 'Jumbo' cut?
This trade model incorporated land and capital as additional factors of production to the Ricardian model.
What is the Specific Factors Model?
This popular book by journalist Stephen Dubner and economist Steven Levitt sparked a hit podcast series by the same name.
What is Freakonomics?
This famous welfare economist was the first Indian to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998.
Who is Amartya Sen?
This Swedish Nobel Prize winner is considered the father of econometrics and was a key founding member of the Econometrics Society in 1930.
Who is Ragnar Frisch?
This Fed Chair served from 1951 to 1970, the longest tenure in the history of the Federal Reserve.
Who is William McChesney Martin?
This paradox, named after its Soviet-American founder, explains why capital-rich nations may export labor goods and import capital goods.
What is the Leontief Paradox?
This Canadian politician, economist, and former head of the Bank of England appeared on The Daily Show in August 2025.
Who is Mark Carney?