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About much more than the buyer, a customer score helps ride providers like Uber and retailers like Best Buy use their resources more effectively.
While facts about China's wine imports from the U.S. are somewhat surprising, still the impact of a tariff war is predictable.
Recognizing the importance of becoming gender neutral, groups that range from Nantucket's Selectmen to the U.S. Marines are changing job titles.
Not as devastating as the retail changes at the mall, the supermarket grocery shopper is also switching to new buying habits.
To fuel the innovation that jumpstarts economic growth, researchers have figured out less traditional ways that will encourage more people to become inventors.
Looking at our day-to-day emotions and our life evaluation, recent studies give us some answers about whether money brings happiness.
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.