July 4, 2019
Relevant today, the timeless ideas in Alexander Hamilton's development plan are about a sovereign debt, banking, and economic growth.
July 3, 2019
Confirming that economics relates to almost everything, game theory can explain yesterday's women's World Cup semifinal penalty kick save by the U.S. team.
July 2, 2019
While healthcare price transparency sounds like a logical way to constrain soaring healthcare costs, the results were not quite what we expected.
July 1, 2019
When the police use their chalk lines on tires as the basis for parking tickets, they could be violating the U.S. Constitution.
June 30, 2019
When Kalamazoo, Michigan made college more accessible to high school graduates through a free tuition program, they were surprised by some of the results.
June 28, 2019
When we compare pizza competition on an island to everywhere else, we wind up with some of what we expect but not entirely.
June 27, 2019
Looking at honor systems in stores and for lost wallets, we can see how people respond and where to find the most honesty.
June 26, 2019
Frequently invisible, the gender inequity we could see in our public policies and product design extends to snow removal and pianos
June 24, 2019
In NYC and in Nantucket, Massachusetts, drivers respond to different incentives because Manhattan has traffic lights while Nantucket does not.
June 23, 2019
Hoping to increase its drive-thru speed, McDonald's has begun to use voice recognition technology to compete against other fast food chains.
June 21, 2019
Working mothers have changed the amount of time they spend on the job, and also on household chores, caring for children, sleeping, and leisure.
June 19, 2019
Although fast-food consumption has been connected to income, recent research indicates the correlation is not what we expect.