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If one of your New Year's resolutions is to sound more like an economist, you can use our top ten list of suggestions.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from pet economic indicators to defining ESG.
Continuing with our December e-links, I recommend two very different films, one happy, one distrurbing, but both are excellent.
As concern for different companies' ESG practices grows, the problem of consistent criteria for ranking becomes ever more evident.
Looking at the end of Boeing 747 history, we see that we are saying good-bye to much more than an airplane.

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.










