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Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from forgetting subscriptions to a pandemic past.
Continuing with our January e-links, I conclude by recommending a phenomenal history of finance and money from a Yale professor.
Trying to predict a post Covid future by looking at hundreds of years of pandemic effects, we wind up with uncertainty.
While the Gross Domestic Product is our main measure of our well-being, we can ask if a GDP alternative would do a better job.
In breakfast wars among fast food establishments, one key weapon in their arsenal is the French toast stick.
Created with the best intentions, instead, countries' Golden Visas wound up with undesirable unintended consequences.
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.