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How a Performance Metric Can Lead to a Giant Nail
August 7, 2015
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August 8, 2015
Our Posts Roundup
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Sunday 8.02.15
The sanitation gap that we need to shrink…more |
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Monday 8.03.15
Why it’s good to drive in circles…more |
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Tuesday 8.04.15
The traffic problems we haven’t solved…more |
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Wednesday 8.05.15
A U.S. and China role reversal…more |
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Thursday 8.06.15
What we can learn from crazy ants… more
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Friday 8.07.15
The downside of measuring our performance…more |
Ideas Roundup
- behavioral economics
- labor
- central planning
- incentives
- performance metrics
- unintended consequences
- markets
- comparative advantage
- subsidies
- tariffs
- free trade
- innovation
- negative externalities
- transportation
- infrastructure
- spontaneous order
- cost and benefit
- developing nations
- GDP
- production possibilities graphs
- productivity
- human capital
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.
