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Unknown to most of us, the quality of customer service can depend on the multiple customer lifetime value (CLV) scores that we get from retailers.
The six facts that summarize world debt identify the big borrowers, the risky borrowers, and the criteria for deciding how much to worry.
With the arrival of mandatory calorie labels at large establishments and soon at smaller ones, we can ask if their impact is predictable.
The Democrats and Republicans have political power for the same kinds of reasons that Coke and Pepsi or Boeing and Airbus dominate their markets.
Since Amazon will probably select among the most prosperous regions in the U.S. for its HQ2 pick(s), we could find that the strong will get even stronger.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from Amazon food and airline seat space to globalization facts.
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.