June 23, 2017
By changing our homes and our cream cheese purchases, taxes on bagels and windows can have unintended consequences when they distort our behavior.
June 22, 2017
For Throwback Thursday (#TBT) we can fondly look back to comfortable economy class travel before less pitch and width created shrinking airline seats.
June 21, 2017
Just like there's no such thing as a free lunch, for consumers, retailers and shippers, there's no such thing as free shipping.
June 20, 2017
When a Subway footlong is 11 inches and a box of Whoppers is half full, we can ask about the lawsuits that tried to remedy their misleading packaging.
June 18, 2017
Starting with Whole Foods, today's Amazon economics lesson will include topics that range from Amazon's acquisitions and innovations to their IPO.
June 16, 2017
Combine Maine's lobster glut with China's lobster demand and you come close to solving the mystery of why lobster prices have not sunk.
June 15, 2017
With shopping malls closing, we can look back at why they first began and why their design was a revolutionary innovation.
June 14, 2017
Although no one tells Maine's wild blueberry growers how much to plant, blueberry markets signal when to cut back and when to plant more.
June 13, 2017
To understand the high prices supported by Hamilton ticket demand, we can look at the elasticity from four groups of theater goers.
June 12, 2017
The retail unemployment caused by the decline of J. Crew and other beloved mall stores relates to a structural change in their industry.
June 11, 2017
The World Bank's Doing Business Index ranks 190 economies to show where the business climate is sunny or stormy because of regulatory policy.
June 9, 2017
