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Because of events that range from football victories to electrical outages, birth rates can spike or fall nine months later.
The skewed race and gender of the film critics that review our top grossing movies might not express what a more diverse group would say.
With tariffs and quotas the weapons, the 1990s banana trade war between the European Union and the U.S. was a classic except for one key difference.
When the digits that appear frequently in national accounting figures, spreadsheets, and earnings reports are missing, then we can say we have suspicious numbers.
While today is the first day that Saudi women can drive legally, they still experience gender inequity at Starbucks and beyond.
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.