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Whether looking at the height of Mount Everest or at the rules of origin that will be renegotiated during the NAFTA talks, we have a statistical accuracy problem.
Confirming that children add to the gender pay gap, the motherhood penalty and the fatherhood bonus each create more of a spread between female and male earnings.
Deconstructing your hamburger and French fries, you would see how NAFTA benefits consumers with lower prices for each ingredient.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from tall latte prices and washing machine ads to Super Bowl finances.
Ranging from Apple to Amazon, and Pets.com to Ameriquest, decades of Super Bowl ads can demonstrate some major turning points in the U.S. economy.
Increasing everyday sustainability, using a revolving building door rather than one that swings would add less to our individual carbon footprint.
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.