April 24, 2016
From the Chrysler Building in NYC to Taipei 101 in Taiwan, the timing of super tall skyscraper construction provides clues about business cycles.
February 1, 2016
Low skilled labor bears more of the cost of free trade than comparative advantage and traditional economics have indicated.
December 31, 2015
Because time zones are a human creation, the beginning of the New Year varies around the world.
December 30, 2015
December 29, 2015
During the past 40 years, Brazil's fertility rates declined. One cause was the new values that soap operas conveyed to an uneducated rural population.
December 28, 2015
U.S. stock market history from 1900-2015 shows how the diminishing dominance of industries like railroads reflects innovation and creative destruction.
December 27, 2015
December 25, 2015
Starting with Santa currency, states saying Christmas is an official holiday, and Christmas trees, in the 19th century holiday spending on Christmas grew.
December 23, 2015
Through the pleasure and pain that fast fashion shopping creates in our brains, we can see why the business model is good for monopolistic competition.
December 21, 2015
Based on a tax code that was made for an industrial age, current corporate taxes that multinationals like Apple could owe need to reflect a digital world.
December 20, 2015
Through worldwide gender gap indicators, we can see that Iceland can optimize productivity and human capital through a small gender gap.
December 18, 2015
Neither an employee nor an independent contractor for whom the law has protections and obligations, the worker in the gig economy needs legal recognition.