Feeling powerless can trigger strong desires to purchase products that convey high status.

Despite vast cultural differences among Asian nations, marketers are mixing a number of cultural influences to create an imaginary Asian world.

Dramatic progress in renewable energy technology is needed if the United States desires to produce 25 percent of its electricity and motor vehicle fuel from renewable sources by 2025.

New research on the commodity coffee market in Uganda finds that when prices percolate, coffee windfalls don’t fully reach the growers.

A regulated system of compensation for living donors may be the solution to the growing shortage of kidneys for transplantation, writes Arthur Matas, Professor of Surgery at the University of Minnesota.

A devastating tropical and subtropical pest that's already considered one of the world's top invasive species just got a bit more troublesome.

Despite perceptions that the nation is losing its competitive edge, the United States remains the dominant leader in science and technology worldwide, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.

I comment on an article in the Washington Post that discusses the United States' loss of stature among scientists and explain why I have high hopes that it is only a short-term phenomenon.

After my first foray into computational simulations successfully predicted that losses should loom larger than gains, at least when the stakes are high, I decided to take on an even more complicated phenomenon in psychology and economics: risk aversion.

In companies that are slated to be shut down, productivity increases during the phase-out period itself.