Although the gender pay gap can be women earning 78 cents for every dollar a male earns, the data, depending on so many variables, is more complicated.
The ebola epidemic will affect Liberia's GDP growth rate through the illness itself and the ripple of fear that hits households, businesses and government.
In conference calls with investors and analysts during the great recession, CEOs expressing curse words more frequently could be an economic indicator.
Because restaurants engaging in monopolistic competition need to differentiate themselves, they use their menu language to show their high or low price qualities.
Structural change in the economy involves new technology replacing old and eliminating jobs like milkmen, icemen, gas lamplighters and typists.
As an oligopoly, through pricing power and product differentiation, Apple takes advantage of the conspicuous consumption customers could experience.
We need to raise the low U.S. savings rate with new incentives like a lottery on savings deposits because households and business investment need savings.