With the human capital in elite jobs dominated by Ivy League or other prestigious schools graduates, we can ask if it's those diplomas that really matter.
The popular music industry is a risk based culture in which addictive substances touring, irregular hours and stress create high mortality rates.
Because economists disagree on how to measure wealth, they convey different conclusions about the history of wealth inequality and distribution..
Allocating water to California almond growers that could be used elsewhere in the state represents tradeoffs and considerable cost during the drought.
If a performance metric is known, the people being evaluated have an incentive to shift their behavior so that their scores improve but not the job they do.
Because he revised his country's inaccurate deficit and received Eurostat approval, Greece's chief statistician might be prosecuted for "breach of faith."