May 14, 2025
When government regulations restrict our water flow, new incentives take us far beyond our showers and kitchen appliances.
January 29, 2025
Looking at our urban walking speeds in three city neighborhoods, researchers observed how our pace changed from 1980 to 2010.
January 19, 2025
When Vail first offered season passes, it transformed the incentives that determined where and when we took ski vacations.
September 4, 2024
Looking at the economic side of music, we can focus on the tradeoffs that relate to art, money, and technology.
May 3, 2024
A malady that billions of people experience, water stress is spreading around the globe as climate changes.
February 13, 2024
From graphs to behavioral economics and free trade, our Valentine's economics again illustrates that economics is everywhere.
July 19, 2023
Made worse by leaky pipes, European water shortages could become a bigger problem that requires short showers.
February 13, 2023
As poems, or graphs, or cartoons, economic Valentines are one of many reasons why economics need not be the dismal science.
June 24, 2020
Looking at Cape Town, South Africa and 12 U.S. cities we can see why the basic water tradeoff involves a choice between conservation and affordability.
November 22, 2019
The problem of airline seat size getting smaller and people getting larger is difficult to solve because comfort and revenue tend to conflict.
August 18, 2019
January 27, 2019
As music industry technology has shifted to streaming, so too have the incentives that are multiplying shorter song tracks.