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Because a Covid-19 basket of goods and services has a different inflation rate from the CPI basket, the cost of living might not be what we think it is.
Through leads, co-leads, and directors, we can see the underrepresentation of diversity in movies for gender, race, and ethnicity.
Invisible to most of us, the fish farms that produce almost half of our seafood are figuring out how to cope with less restaurant demand.
A closer look at U.S. wealth distribution reveals the role of home and securities ownership and the vast gap between the top and bottom 50 percent.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from China's capitalism to Sweden's pandemic policy.
In these June 2020 e-links, my first two recommendations--the NBER Digest and helicopter cherry drying--are vastly different but equally interesting.
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.