California’s homeless population is rising rapidly despite substantially higher government spending on the problem.

An argument that a rules-based reform of the international monetary system, achieved by applying basic economic theory, would improve economic performance.

The World Affairs Council of Orange County has organized a lecture/dinner event with world renowned economist Raghuram Rajan. He is the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Chief Economist of the IMF. He will be speaking about his new book, 'The Third Pillar: How Markets & the State Leave the Community Behind.'

Psychologist Dan Ariely, who writes an “Ask Ariely” column in the weekend Wall Street Journal, leads in last weekend’s column with a psychological explanation of a phenomenon that often arises in auctions. In doing so, he fails to consider an obvious economic explanation.