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A default choice by many women, keeping a maiden name tends to retain patriarchal power and expand the gender power gap.
The 2021 Federal Reserve Board SHED report lets us see the inflation clues we can gather from the increase in household financial well-being.
While the most recent USDA totals are outdated, the tooth fairy and teenage baby sitters can tell us the up-to-date cost of raising a child.
Grubhub's free lunch offer wound up being rather costly for consumers and restaurants because they did not know TANSTAAFL.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our economic news roundup ranges from Big Macs and globalization to India's heatwave.
For our May e-links, through this third entry, I recommend a podcast that explains all we will enjoy knowing about stablecoins.
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.