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Confirming the gender gap at the top, the NY Times Glass Ceiling Index compares the number of Fortune 500 female CEOs and Fortune 500 male CEOs named John.
Because saving Social Security takes us to a conflict between math and politics, the Congress has has a tough time selecting solutions.
With coffee available on almost every street corner, the econlife team thought we would take a closer look at what we all need to know in our latest quiz.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from Medicare for All and extinct languages to plastic bag fees.
When the development of cellophane let us have self-service food shopping for meat and produce, it started a retailing revolution that economists call creative destruction.
Our first February's e-links is a "bar chart race" from economist Mark Perry that perfectly, in less than 30 seconds, summarizes U.S. trade from 1992-2019.
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.