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Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from owning a view to judging the GDP.
Continuing with our July e-links, I've moved from the frivolous books and videos I've been watching to a podcast on the consumer.
While the possibilities are countless, we can see the specific drought impact by focusing on sinking river levels.
As a metric that indicates whether a country is borrowing too much, the debt to GDP ratio focuses on borrowing and growth.
With rising sea levels, we wind up with a tension between saving the beach and preserving private property.
Looking at aging populations, we could see less of a demographic drag on economic growth because of misleading mathematics.
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.