Our Econlife roundup for the week
7.14.14 An island without traffic lights displays the benefits of Adam Smith’s laissez-faire…more
7.15.14 Why David Ricardo would approve of where your sneakers were made…more
7.16.14 John Maynard Keynes could say why you’ll get less Social Security than your grandma…more
7.17.14 How to pay for the ACA the John Stuart Mill way…more
7.18.14 For Joseph Schumpeter, entrepreneur Eileen Ford was about 2 new kinds of models…more
Our Weekly Roundup: From Traffic Lights to Sneakers, Everyday Economics Explained by 5 Great Economists



Elaine Schwartz
Elaine Schwartz has spent her career sharing the interesting side of economics. At the Kent Place School in Summit, NJ, she has been honored through an Endowed Chair in Economics and the History Department chairmanship. At the same time, she developed curricula and wrote several books including Understanding Our Economy (originally published by Addison Wesley as Economics Our American Economy) and Econ 101 ½ (Avon Books/Harper Collins). Elaine has also written in the Encyclopedia of New Jersey (Rutgers University Press) and was a featured teacher in the Annenberg/CPB video project “The Economics Classroom.” Beyond the classroom, she has presented Econ 101 ½ talks and led workshops for the Foundation for Teaching Economics, the National Council on Economic Education and for the Concord Coalition.