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Connecting economics, current events, and history, today's economic news roundup ranges from bananas to female CEOs and Head Start.
For April's e-links, we look at an apostrophe and an AP exam problem, and podcasts that range from a movie analysis to a snakebite story.
Logo changes from corporations and government agencies convey a message about branding and product differentiation.
We can compare the early childhood education component of President Biden's legislative proposals to other preschool programs.
To assess the workplace gender gap among countries and companies, we need only look at the names James and Michael.
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.