February 18, 2019
February 15, 2019
Now that Amazon's HQ2 will not be in Long Island City, New York, we can ask if the multi-billion dollar incentive package was worth the tradeoffs.
February 14, 2019
To understand why certain cities have more dog walkers, scientists, and pastry chefs, we just need to look at the geography of jobs.
February 11, 2019
The preliminary results for Finland's two-year guaranteed income experiment appears to have created more questions than it answered.
January 30, 2019
Unable to mass produce a tiny screw, Apple's Mac Pro plant in Austin, Texas demonstrated the problem with U.S.manufacturing.
January 29, 2019
Far more than an undergarment, the sports bra helped to spread the Title IX mandate through physics, power, and psychology.
January 28, 2019
Whether looking at a self-driving car or your airline ticketing app, you can see how automation has begun to shift job activities.
January 27, 2019
As music industry technology has shifted to streaming, so too have the incentives that are multiplying shorter song tracks.
January 17, 2019
Hearing the Clemson University football team got 300 burgers at the White House, an economist might name the resources needed for a quarter pounder.
January 6, 2019
The discount airline was just an idea when Herb Kelleher became the Texas entrepreneur who created what became known as the Southwest Effect.
January 3, 2019
Sort of like life's bookends, a declining number of children and more elderly people can explain why Japan's population is shrinking.
December 30, 2018
A look at the NASA shutdown reveals the massive human cost and the programs that are affected when an agency is suddenly unfunded.