An innovation being sold to manufacturers, jars with slippery interior surfaces will create positive externalities by lessening waste and saving time.
To fuel French economic growth, productivity and employment, a controversial law will allow more Sunday shopping but the business/leisure debate continues.
Whether looking at what fans spend and wager or the NCAA, the coaches, the teams, the media, and corporate promotions, March Madness is about big business.
More than its low labor costs, Mexico is attracting car manufacturers away from the U.S. because it has free trade agreements with more than 40 countries.
Because cost and benefit analysis shows that temptation bundling for gym attendance encourages healthier behaviors, the approach can be used elsewhere.
Our everyday economics includes tradeoffs, debt ceiling, fiscal policy, GDP, productivity, entitlements, regulation, autonomous vehicles, and innovation.
Related to customization, sharing, software dominance, job losses, and ripples of disrupting the status quo, the driverless car is an innovation prototype.
One of many examples in Peter Schuck's new book, the Social Security program shows how government can be successful and also why it "fails so often."
A competitive strategy, planned obsolescence is controversial. It can spur innovation and growth or represent corporate waste and consumer manipulation.