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While healthcare price transparency sounds like a logical way to constrain soaring healthcare costs, the results were not quite what we expected.
When the police use their chalk lines on tires as the basis for parking tickets, they could be violating the U.S. Constitution.
When Kalamazoo, Michigan made college more accessible to high school graduates through a free tuition program, they were surprised by some of the results.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from data and tariff problems to pizza competition.
Friday's e-links: Because of a new podcast on the 1607 Jamestown settlement, I truly understood how poor leadership can be catastrophic.
When we compare pizza competition on an island to everywhere else, we wind up with some of what we expect but not entirely.
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.