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Before, during and after a natural disaster like Harvey, we have hurricane economics affecting gasoline markets and the GDP.
Connecting economics, current events and history, our Weekly Economic News Roundup includes Wall Street traders, Coney Island eaters and college athletes.
When Joey Chestnut guzzles 72 Nathan's hot dogs in 10 minutes, his competitive eating takes us to much more than food and entertainment.
Sometimes more harmful than "sticks and stones," gender word barriers create images of women that demean their professional skills.
The results of the bet between biologist Paul Ehrlich and economist Julian Simon showed how the power of the market affects commodity prices.
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.