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The Mystery of the $300 Textbook
January 16, 2015
Explaining the Health Club Memberships We Don’t Use
January 18, 2015
Our Posts Roundup
Sunday 1.11.15 Trying to find the workers that need to be counted…more
Monday 1.12.15 Uncovering the real reason college elevates earnings…more
Tuesday 1.13.15 The marijuana cash that can’t find a home…more
Wednesday 1.14.15 Locating the statistics that no longer exist …more
Thursday 1.15.15 The strange case of the class nobody can define…more
Friday 1.16.15 Discovering why we pay so much for college textbooks…more
Ideas Roundup
- participation rate
- human capital
- signaling
- return on investment (ROI)
- money supply
- banking system
- agricultural production
- price signals
- fiscal austerity
- personal income
- middle class
- monopoly
- opportunity cost
- bubble
- competitive market structure
I am Elaine Schwartz, an economics writer, teacher, and the founder of econlife®. In so many places and ways, I have tried to make economics interesting and accessible so we could be personally, professionally, and politically knowledgeable.
