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Easy to ignore, facts about time can reveal how we allocate activities, how countries coordinate, and our tradeoffs.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from the baskball gender pay gap to unceratinty.
Beginning our March e-links, we recommend a podcast that tells all we could want to know about the dollar in just 50 minutes.
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.