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More than a place to buy food, the grocery store says a lot more about the affluence from our GDP and our subjective well-being.
For reasons that range from feminism to technology to urbanization, living alone in the United States has become increasingly typical.
Although quantitative easing flooded the banking system with trillions of dollars, we are still debating how much it lifted the economy.
Lay's Potato Chips became more than a snack when PepsiCo decided that a group of nine Indian farmers should not grow its special potatoes.
With the popularity of paternity leave increasing, researchers wanted to know whether it influenced the number of children that fathers in Spain wanted.
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.