Tag: economics
How much is the world’s most productive river worth? Here’s how...
Stefan Lovgren, University of Nevada, Reno
Southeast Asia’s Mekong may be the most important river in the world. Known...
Smart meters and dynamic pricing can help consumers use electricity when...
Matthew E. Kahn, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California
Americans...
Five things that economists know, but sound wrong to most other...
Renaud Foucart, Lancaster University
Economists have shaped the modern world in many ways. Governments make policy choices in response...
Does raising the minimum wage kill jobs? The century long search...
Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury
For decades it was conventional wisdom in the field of economics that a higher...
Squid Game: the real debt crisis shaking South Korea that inspired...
Sarah A. Son, University of Sheffield
Squid Game is anything but your typical, saccharine, soft-glow Korean television drama. In...
Microeconomics explains why people can never have enough of what they...
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
Economics is broadly divided into macroeconomics and microeconomics. The big picture, macroeconomics,...
Racial income and wealth gaps are huge – but the Fed...
Paul Wachtel, New York University
Central bankers and economists from around the world are convening remotely for the annual...
Expanding opportunities for women and economic uncertainty are both factors in...
Ann M. Oberhauser, Iowa State University
The decline in population growth in the U.S. from 2010 to 2020 is...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
