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With Southwest making the gobsmacking switch to assigned seats, airline boarding has been in the news again.
Recent legislative changes have affected our food stamp program called SNAP and also the definition of candy.
While the roads component of a transportation infrastruction matters everywhere, the GDP boost is especially high in developing nations.
Dealing with a grade inflation problem that most schools experience, Harvard has announced several suggestions for its faculty.
Knowing that China's GDP statistical approach is different from the U.S. can let us compare the two more realistically.
Connecting economics, current events and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from the minimimum wage to snowstorm spending.
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.