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On this #TBT, we can look back at the golden age of productivity growth to see when and how our standard of living improved.
According to a Dutch study, we can observe the impact of marijuana on academic performance in quantitative courses at Maastricht University.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion and subsequent Supreme Court decision had a surprising impact the divorce rate.
When the development of cellophane let us have self-service shopping for meat and produce, it started a retailing revolution.
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.