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We can use Thanksgiving dinner, and especially the turkey, to see how inflation has affected recent food prices.
In Krakow, Poland, hundreds of voluteers implement Ukrainian food distribution by using Adam Smith's division of labor.
Having tired of talking turkey at your Thanksgiving dinner, you could give everyone the latest econlife quiz: Do You Know Your Thanksgiving Economics?
Xi's dinner with Iowa farmers reminds us that the U.S. China trade relationship is not decoupling everywhere,
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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.