September 13, 2018
When natural disasters like hurricanes, massive snowstorms, and wildfires strike a region, their economic impact is far more than the clean-up.
September 12, 2018
Called the Starbucks effect, current and future housing prices tend to rise when a Starbucks moves into the neighborhood.
September 3, 2018
Comparing the U.S. workweek with South Korea and five European nations reveals how much we do at night and during the weekend.
August 28, 2018
In addition to teens' mental health, we can support later school start times with cost benefit analysis that focuses on the economy.
August 14, 2018
August 6, 2018
You can assume that individuals are affluent if their consumer spending includes iPads, Verizon Wireless, and Ziploc bags.
August 3, 2018
Rather like Apple just became the first trillion dollar corporation, in 1901 U.S. Steel took us past the billion dollar threshold.
July 31, 2018
With health care becoming a job engine, we could have more physicians, nurses, and assistants twith job-related names like Payne, Butcher, and Burns.
July 30, 2018
Whether looking at childcare, boiling water, or changing a light bulb, the activities that compose household production are tough to value.
July 4, 2018
Relevant today, the timeless ideas in Alexander Hamilton's development plan are about sovereign debt, banking, and economic growth.
June 13, 2018
Looking at the North Korean economy, economists have to become detectives because the government refuses to share basic statistics.
June 11, 2018
In many ways, a country can become good at football (soccer) and nurture a World Cup winner but it also could get snagged by the "middle income trap."