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Friday's e-links: By combining Captain Ahab's fixation for his whale, food, and of course beer, this FT article is our update for Japan's rugby World Cup.
As New York's hourly minimum wage started heading toward $15 while Pennsylvania's remained at $7.25, some of the results were surprising.
#TBT: Looking back to the creation of Amazon Prime, we see we've come a long way from what we used to expect when we ordered online.
Looking at the economic impact of India's 2016 demonetization of large denomination rupees, researchers concluded that cash still matters.
A Social Security shortfall will create tradeoffs between the generations that get more than they paid to the system and others that get much less.
Rather like the reclining chair debate, the battle of the airplane window shade has also become a source of passenger conflict.
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.