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Our November 2021 e-links begin with insomnia in Hong Kong and an article that describes the bus ride that is a 47-mile 5 hour napping cure.
In Europe and the U.S., pandemic labor shortages have nudged vineyards towards grape picking robots and pruners.
As rebranding Facebook unfolds, the firm's strategy and structure are supposed to reflect its new identity as Meta.
A disputed island and the surrounding Grey Zone add up to a lobster war with conflicting lobster regulation between the U.S. and Canada.
By ranking 15 cities, Bloomberg Businessweek used five criteria to identify the best places for working women.
Whether looking at a pumpkin slingshot, pumpkin purchases, or pumpkin planting, the incentives are always at the margin.
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.