May 25, 2020
Looking at the first shopping mall and its evolution, we can see how its original concept will now be turned upside down.
April 21, 2020
Economists can explain and improve our inadequate disaster preparation for predictable wildfires, diseases, hurricanes, and earthquakes.
April 14, 2020
Looking at activities that range from jaywalking to loading dishwashers, we can see how tight and loose social norms can shape behavior.
March 19, 2020
Evidence from past natural disasters indicate that the coronavirus impact could relate to the birth rate and the divorce rate.
March 3, 2020
When Hermes combined very high prices with limited availability for its Birkin bags, it not only generated conspicuous consumption but also a problem.
February 28, 2020
Looking at coronavirus as a Black Swan Event, we can better grasp its predictability, its impact, and its similarly to other exceptional crises.
February 26, 2020
When companies replace single use cups with mugs and glasses, the employee response has been somewhat like our use of gym memberships.
February 19, 2020
Economic anthropologists focus on the human side of money when they see us now and in the past, as individuals, as families, and as one world.
February 7, 2020
Whether looking at great apes or humans, there is evidence that all of us experience a dip in our happiness curves at a similar stage of the life cycle.
February 2, 2020
While many of us think that restaurants sell us food, economists point out that they are actually renting space to diners for several hours.
January 24, 2020
With signs that increase gender equality in public spaces, a female presence can be explicitly recognized and affect infrastructure design and jobs.
January 6, 2020
Thinking about changing habits that are good and bad, we can look at what researchers discovered during a popcorn experiment.