Recognizing that neighborhoods with better schools and other shared characteristics affect income mobility, anti-poverty policy can become more effective.
Although firms and countries have family friendly policies with generous paternity and maternity leave, the impact has harmed women's chances for promotion.
Showing the purchasing power of different currencies and under-and overvaluation, the Big Mac Index can provide an understanding of the yuan devaluation.
By rebranding Google as Alphabet, it can have a clearly defined parent while Google, as an oligopoly, can keep its brand's product differentiation.
This week's everyday economics includes property rights, trade, creative destruction, entitlements, tradeoffs, conservation, externalities, price, and markets.
Expensive trophy hunting packages demonstrate how the price system gives a value to animals that helps to preserve them.
For major OECD countries and the U.S., the source and destination for healthcare spending reflect national values about limited government.
Whenever a new skyscraper is built, we can ask whether its shadow violates our property rights when it eliminates the sunlight in a city's parks.