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Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from vaccine nationalism and exercise incentives to Apple stock.
For our August e-links, my first recommendation is a podcast that looks at public and private attitudes about female rage.
Beginning with revenue from the "computers" that two partners named Steve built in a garage, Apple's finance depended on the potential of the corporation.
The results of a new study about dominance in homing pigeon groups can be compared to the significance of differences in human height.
Further evidence that economics is everywhere, a behavioral economist knows how to incentivize exercise through temptation bundling.
Involving billions of doses of temperature controlled liquid vials, global Covid-19 vaccine distribution could be surprisingly complex.
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.