Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from high sugary drink taxes to low baseball salaries.
Friday's e-links: Today we recommend this week's Econtalk, an interview with Daniel Hamermesh that focuses on how much our time costs us.
Looking at the Philadelphia sugary drinks tax, we would find it did not accomplish many of its goals in three major categories.
After closing all of their Panera Cares Cafes where customers were supposed "pay what you want," Panera might have a problem with the IRS.
While Kenji Lopez-Alt perceived his new restaurant through a food writer's lens, an economist would see it somewhat differently.
Although some find it tough to find a constantly shifting political center and others say there might not be one, we all care about the same issues.
Easy to ignore, the quantity of cardboard boxes that we demand has soared because of the incentives created by Amazon Prime.
Whether looking at Mike Trout's $430 million or a newly drafted player, we see athletes whose baseball salaries are called underpaid.