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Because a viral video circulated during this year's March Madness, NCAA women's basketball will be treated more equitably in the future.
Looking back 55 years at the changes in life expectancy, we could decide to change our definition of what it means to be old.
By increasing cigarette taxes, states provided an example that extends beyond smoking of how a higher cost leads to healthier habits.
Depending on whether they won gold, silver, or bronze, Olympic medal winners might not be as happy as we would expect.
Similar to the goals expressed by Robinhood, long ago a major Wall Street firm focused on retail investors and also had its IPO.
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.