Rippling far beyond furniture assembly, the IKEA Effect can determine how we value what we construct and cook at home, and design at work.
Making financial decisions, we might take more or less risk because of the color of the print in our documents and charts.
By comparing manufacturing and fracking communities, economists are trying to figure out why the number of single parents is soaring.
Hit by trade shock from China, U.S. communities that experience factory layoffs and closings will also see an impact on marriage rates.
Wondering why cars happily stop to let pedestrians cross the road on an island without traffic lights, we can find an answer from Adam Smith.
Only several decades ago, the dating norms that said who paid for a meal were much clearer than they are today because of women's new economic role.
With shopping malls closing, we can look back at why they first began and why their design was a revolutionary innovation.
While the traffic congestion problem in NYC, LA and D.C. wastes huge time and money, they do not appear to want to solve it.
We can better grasp what we mean by the GDP by looking at the numbers and also by comparing its components to an alternative.












