June 16, 2019
The success of a decision to use Waze, Google Maps, and other mapping apps to avoid traffic can depend on outsmarting the prisoner's dilemma.
June 15, 2019
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from equal pay for female soccer players to album bundles.
June 14, 2019
Calculating the value of college involves what we spend, what we sacrifice, what we earn, and some other surprising considerations.
June 13, 2019
#TBT: Looking back at Google's growth spurts, we begin with a small company in 1999 but then see 270 acquisitions and industry concentration.
June 12, 2019
In the court battle over the gender pay gap in women's World Cup soccer, the U.S. national team is citing issues that relate to much more than a sport.
June 11, 2019
Because album bundles increase our demand for a star's recordings, they help to propel a song or album to the #1 Billboard spot.
June 10, 2019
June 9, 2019
Whenever the discovery, reconstruction, and FEDEx delivery of the Smithsonian's new T. rex is described, the story usually leaves out the fiscal details.
June 8, 2019
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from census economics and trading car seats to counting cats.
June 7, 2019
While the mission of the DC Cat Count is humane treatment of cats, it is also a cat census that provides a basic economic lesson.
June 6, 2019
#TBT: Through the amazingly similar prefabricated houses that they both have sold, we can see why Amazon has been called the new Sears, Roebuck.
June 5, 2019
While electric vehicle subsidies create the incentives to buy more environmentally friendly vehicles, they might be targeting the wrong people.