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To understand why certain cities have more dog walkers, scientists, and pastry chefs, we just need to look at the geography of jobs.
A New York federal court recently explained why it was okay for our potato chip bags to have excessive air that is called slack fill.
The preliminary results for Finland's two-year guaranteed income experiment appears to have created more questions than it answered.
The chef that left New York's Prince Street Pizza to start his own restaurant could find himself fighting a pizza war because of his pepperoni recipe.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from fairly dividing boat slips to a Valentine's candy shortage.
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.