May 16, 2021
Accidentally inventing the Post-it Note, two scientists and one large corporation demonstrated where an innovation can take us.
May 15, 2021
May 13, 2021
When some of us say "soda" and others "pop," we are asking for a carbonated soft drink and also, perhaps, signaling our cultural differences.
May 10, 2021
With tectonic shifts in the TV and film business, movie product placement has remained a dependable marketing tool.
May 8, 2021
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from impulse buying to vaccine sharing.
May 7, 2021
May 6, 2021
To be sure that vaccine markets travel from the developed nations to developing economies, we might have to accept some costly tradeoffs.
May 5, 2021
Staying at home during the pandemic, we have shifted our impulse buying from the supermarket to our online shopping cart.
May 4, 2021
Comparing the companies called big tech, we can see the similar ways that they grew, diversified, and became increasingly powerful.
May 1, 2021
Connecting economics, current events, and history, today's economic news roundup ranges from bananas to female CEOs and Head Start.
April 30, 2021
We can compare the early childhood education component of President Biden's legislative proposals to other preschool programs.
April 28, 2021
To assess the workplace gender gap among countries and companies, we need only look at the names James and Michael.