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Continuing with our November e-links, i recommend a great mystery that is riveting and witty--perfect for temptation bundling.
Among the countless ways to measure global inequality, we can look between nations, within them, and over time.
Rememebring that economics explains our everyday life, we can use a Thanksgiving top ten to understand our holiday behavior.
One reason that we have had Thanksgiving Economics change is because of decisions from Presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Bush.
Measured by the money we earn rather than satisfaction, the return on our investment in education can be called the college payoff.

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.









