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When we look at the world's carbon taxes, as economists we can think of Arthur Pigou and correcting market failure.
Adopting bitcoin during September 2021, El Salvador's political leadership did not know all that could go wrong...and it did.
With the bankruptcy filing of the largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, the need for regulation (and the Howey Test) is ever more apparent.
Connecting economics, current events, andhistory, this week's economic news roundup ranges from short coen to baby names and lottery losers.
Continuing with our November e-links, this week I recommend a New Yorker Magazine look at Jack Welch that tells us what we never knew.
More than crop innovation, the story of short corn takes us to climate change, to farm productivity, and maybe even to long potatoes.
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.