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Even U.S. cheesemakers suffer when the EU (European Union) says you can't use a label like Parmesan or feta because your cheese wasn't made in the required place.
With job guarantee proposals in the news, we can start to consider what so massive an entitlement program could involve.
Describing why we'll have new hotel shampoo bottles, Marriott, a hotel guest, and an economist would have different explanations.
Sometimes low cost production can make goods as different as a caviar sandwich and a Model T Ford more similar than we might expect.
Looking at the world's most bike-friendly cities, you can see why only one city in the U.S. was among the top twenty in 2015 and none were there in 2017.
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.