May 3, 2018
Describing why we'll have new hotel shampoo bottles, Marriott, a hotel guest, and an economist would have different explanations.
April 30, 2018
Behavioral economists can explain why are lured into buying a year's subscription for movie watching and other media that we barely use.
April 23, 2018
April 22, 2018
Whether we look at a cartoon on women's "mental load" at home or a recent study on the gender pay gap in Denmark, the problem is the mommy penalty.
April 18, 2018
A paradox explains why our concern for wildlife conservation might not extend to the charismatic animals we most care about.
April 16, 2018
Deciding which groups should give which should receive, government redistribution policies could be based on a generational lens.
April 15, 2018
Whether looking at chicken paws or hog hooves, U.S. and China food tastes have worked well together until U.S. and Chinese tariffs have upset the benefits of the relationships.
April 13, 2018
The economic way to demonstrate sadness is to look at misery indexes that use macro data to measure changes in our emotions.
April 12, 2018
Told that their least favorite candy might no longer exist, people are panic buying NECCO wafers and Sweethearts because the New England Confectionary Company could shut down.
April 5, 2018
While facts about China's wine imports from the U.S. are somewhat surprising, still the impact of a tariff war is predictable.
April 3, 2018
Not as devastating as the retail changes at the mall, the supermarket grocery shopper is also switching to new buying habits.
April 1, 2018
Looking at our day-to-day emotions and our life evaluation, recent studies give us some answers about whether money brings happiness.