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Continuing with our September e-links, I return to an excellent book that I briefly recommended two months ago.
Hearing WSJ's new college ranking criteria, we can still suggest that it is impossible to eliminate subjectivity.
Surprising economists, after pandemic lows, the number of working women in the labor force with young children went up.
Whether looking back to 1965's predictions or at the past decade, Medicare spending has alwaya had some surprises.
Opening a bag of almonds, we can recognize the millions of bees owned by commercial pollinators that made our snack possible.
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.