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Continuing with our April e-links, I recommend the one podcast that I enjoyed this week because it conveyed some supermarket economics.
By focusing on the globe's 17 rare earth elements, we can see what they are, where to find them, and how to get them.
Looking back at Brazil and cotton, and the EU and bananas, we can see how the WTO helps us fight normal trade wars.
To move Apple's massive supply chain to the United States, it would have to re-coordinate more than 600 component producers.
Animal economics is about a slew of tradeoffs when we tryi to reduce our carbon imprint with less meat consumption.
Looking at the steady slide in the number of U.S. manufacturing jobs, we see structural change with several causes.
Hello Everyone-
I’m Elaine.
Having been in the classroom for decades, written three books (and some of a fourth one), I like to think about economics everywhere all the time. Every day, I’ve added a blog to econlife—now it has been almost 14 years and more than 4,000 posts. I am delighted that you are here and hope we can have some economic fun together.