Weekly Roundup
January 18, 2025
Connecting economics, current events, and history, this week's economic news roundup ranges from pricey pizza to changing times.
January 2025 Friday’s e-links: The Top Ten Risks For 2025
e-links
January 17, 2025
Will a Time Change Create More Efficiency?
Behavioral Economics
January 17, 2025
Why a British Pizzeria Charges £100 For Its Hawaiian Pie
Demand and Supply
January 16, 2025
Why Canada Chose a Road Instead of a Reserve
tradeoffs
January 15, 2025
Elaine Schwartz - January 19, 2025
When Vail first offered season passes, it transformed the incentives that determined where and when we took ski vacations.
Will a Time Change Create More Efficiency?
Elaine Schwartz - January 17, 2025
Why a British Pizzeria Charges £100 For Its Hawaiian Pie
Elaine Schwartz - January 16, 2025
Why Canada Chose a Road Instead of a Reserve
Elaine Schwartz - January 15, 2025
Why South Korea Became a Matchmaker
Elaine Schwartz - January 14, 2025
Elaine Schwartz - December 5, 2024
Looking back to 2004 and looking ahead, the topic of EU expansion takes us to comparative advantage and growth.
What Your Baby Stroller Says About You
Elaine Schwartz - July 18, 2024
How Alexander Hamilton Gave Us Economic Independence
Elaine Schwartz - July 4, 2024
What a Captcha Costs Us
Elaine Schwartz - April 26, 2024
Why a Cruise Ship is Like a Model-T
Elaine Schwartz - April 23, 2024
Elaine Schwartz - November 15, 2024
Looking at cost and benefit in 316 urban areas, a recent study from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that rather than taking city streets for granted, we should ponder the alternatives.
How Nvidia Changed the Dow
Elaine Schwartz - November 12, 2024
What History Says About Tariffs
Elaine Schwartz - November 10, 2024
Disaster Economics
Elaine Schwartz - October 9, 2024
When a Mortgage Is Like a Hurricane
Elaine Schwartz - October 8, 2024
Elaine Schwartz - January 14, 2025
How South Korea's unusually low fertility rate relates to an unexpected characteristic of its economic growth.
What a Tariff Costs the Government
Elaine Schwartz - January 12, 2025
How Tesla’s Carbon Credits Boost Its Bottom Line
Elaine Schwartz - January 10, 2025
Where Popeye Is a Scary Sailor Man
Elaine Schwartz - January 3, 2025
New Year’s Resolutions: The Top Ten Ways to Sound Like an Economist
Elaine Schwartz - January 1, 2025
econguest - September 25, 2024
While we will never forget the opening ceremony on the Seine, there was lots more to remember from the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Econlife Quiz: Trader Joe’s
econguest - June 10, 2024
Econlife Quiz: Barbie
econguest - November 26, 2023
Elaine Schwartz - January 17, 2025
Continuing with our January e-links, we recommend a top ten risks list for 2025 that gives more insight about what the new year could bring.
January 2025 Friday’s e-links: An “Odd Lots” Top Ten Podcast List
Elaine Schwartz - January 3, 2025
December 2024 Friday’s e-links: Why the Chicken Came Before the Egg
Elaine Schwartz - December 27, 2024