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Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from beer cans to hot dogs.
Continuing with our July e-links, this week we recommend a book that explains our psychological connection to money and investing.
Ever since someone figured out the 6-pack, beer can sizes have affected our buying and drinking decisions.
We can use economic game theory to understand the decisions made by kickers and goalies during World Cup penalty shootouts.
While it appeared that bird flu caused egg price increases during 2023 and 2024, there was another surprising reason.
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.