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For this month's first two e-links, we recommend some learning and some relaxation through a big tech article and a detective series.
Staying at home during the pandemic, we have shifted our impulse buying from the supermarket to our online shopping cart.
To solve the mystery created by the inflation worries that are in the news, we can look at sticky and flexible prices.
When some of us say "soda" and others "pop," we are asking for a carbonated soft drink and also, perhaps, signaling our cultural differences.
Whether looking at hostage victims of kidnappers or ransomware from hackers, we find similar ransom markets.
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.