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Our October e-links continue with a podcast series from the St. Louis Fed that occasionally is not to be missed.
Extending far beyond hogs and animal welfare, National Pork Producers Council v. Ross is about state power.
Seeing the U.S. News 2022 ranking of the world's best countries, we can combine skepticism with the insight conveyed by people's perceptions.
Remembering that economics explains human behavior, we can use its basic conepts to explain pumpkin spice popularity.
For those of us that thought the MoviePass story ended in 2019, we can go to their new website for the next chapter.
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.