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WNBA expansion takes us to the tradeoffs that further provide women's professional sports with recognition and respect.
To decide if we are inflating an AI bubble, we can focus on the market structure and multiplication of data centers.
Sometimes safety regulations can have the unintended consequence of encouraging the risky behavior they were supposed to prevent.
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from unpredictable tariffs to Nobel immigrants.
Continuing with our November e-links, we look at a podcast that reveals the surprising ways we can produce and distribute milk.
By eliminating the penny, the U.S. Treasury has created questions that retailers are asking about cash customers.
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.