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When Harriet Tubman becomes the face of the $20 instead of Andrew Jackson, she will show what money can say.
Knowing that consumers fuel the GDP, we can ask if our projected Mother's Day spending will continue to support the economy.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from cow poop bingo to easier tax preparation.
Starting our May 2022 e-links, this Katy Milkman podcast is a behavioral economics diversion that exposes the nudges that shape our decisions.
Occupying billions of hours and dollars, tax preparation in the United States could be much simpler if we just copied Estonia.
With New Jersey's new paper and plastic bag bans, we can ask if the regulations will have the unintended consequence of the "Cobra Effect."
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.