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With the demise of "Doing Business," the World Bank just announced a replacement that focuses on business friendliness and much more.
Recent UK labor legislation could create the unintended consequeces that result from most new worker mandates.
Seemingly very different, because tennis and port automation both involve people being replaced by machines, the tradeoffs are similar.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from hurricane costs to college football.
Continuing with our October e-links, today I suggest subscribing to a weekly NASA newsletter that recently looked at the stranded astronauts.
With a limited edition Chicken Big Mac, McDonald's will use new ammunition to fight the chicken sandwich war.
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.