October 29, 2015
Showing the connection between inflation and unemployment, the Phillips Curve has been re-interpreted, re-affirmed and condemned as a monetary policy tool.
October 27, 2015
One reason we have a labor force participation rate of 62.4 percent is because retirees, students, the disabled and people who care for family do not work.
October 14, 2015
The 2015 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, Angus Deaton studied inequality through health and wealth and micro and macroeconomics.
October 5, 2015
Because credit card scores predict trustworthiness and financial distress, they indicate whether a co-habitation relationship will be long lasting.
September 30, 2015
The characteristics of the student loan crisis include a high default and delinquency rate, huge amounts of money and a personal and macroeconomic impact.
September 14, 2015
While some high middle income economies have slowed down and then accelerated again, using World Bank criteria, China's economic growth is tough to predict.
September 1, 2015
Because middling food like hamburgers is consumed by most people in the affluent West, what we eat does not necessarily reflect inequality or social status.
August 21, 2015
Depending on how fast news travels, high speed trading can be done through homing pigeons or computers but both have created information asymmetry.
July 30, 2015
Because the presence of women in Major League Baseball (MLB) management positions is very small, they have diminished their talented human capital supply.
July 29, 2015
Because of a low gasoline tax, the Highway Trust Fund does not have enough money to maintain the transportation infrastructure of highways and mass transit.
July 23, 2015
Weighing cost and benefit for Seattle's recycling environmental regulation involves privacy, dollars, time, and respect for the law and our environment.
July 22, 2015
Focusing on production and distribution, economists look at the role of markets and of government when they try to determine what causes and ends famines.