The infrastructure of our country, Harker said, is at a pivotal moment. And to make this moment a positive, Harker suggested economics should value infrastructure the way former Northwestern ...

Can Economics Better Value Nature? 3 minute read View of a deforested and burning area of the Amazon rainforest in the region of Labrea, state of Amazonas, northern Brazil, in 2022.

The time value of money (TVM) is a core financial principle also known as the present discounted value (PDV). It states that money today is worth more than the same amount in the future.

This course introduces students to accounting and finance operations and principles, and how they impact engineering and manufacturing activities in both analytical and forward looking planning ...

Thus, a sum of money today and the same sum in the future couldn’t have the same value. For Turgot, interest is the price given for the use of a certain quantity of value during a certain time. The ...

The time preference theory of interest, also referred to as the agio theory of interest, helps explain the time value of money. This theory argues that people prefer to spend today and save for ...

This course introduces students to accounting and finance operations and principles, and how they impact engineering and manufacturing activities in both analytical and forward looking planning ...