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With cheap fast food tough to find, our least expensive restaurants are figuring out new competitive strategies.
Managing the conflicts at COP29 resulted in a few baby steps toward the goal of constraining global warming.
Never entirely predictable, this year, Thanksgiving dinner will cost us less than last year but there are some surprises.
Connecting economics, current events, and history this week's economic news roundup ranges from dating apps to asparagus emissions.
Continuing with our November e-links, we recommend a NY Times article on the phenomenal usefulness of venom.
Whether it's a $5 T-shirt, $8 gasoline, or the $100 million Magritte painting that was sold this week at a Christie's auction, we can depend on price to send a message.
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.