When no traffic lights on the island of Nantucket has created good will among strangers, it also might show the limits of Adam Smith's laissez-faire.
Those vendors that sell us hot dogs, peanuts, and Coke at a ball game are thinking about a lot more than the food and the score.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from the mommy penalty and traffic congestion to bees.
Disrupting traditionally sleepy mattress markets, now we can buy beds-in-a-box online and visit countless mattress stores at local malls.
Two new papers have looked more closely at the mommy penalty and even identified how women who have no children are affected.
Instead of Google Maps, we might be able to avoid rush hour traffic congestion by looking at everyone's electrical usage.
The market's message from bee pollination prices has minimized the impact of colony collapse disorder (CCD) on our Big Mac.