Economic Ideas

April 19, 2019

What Misery Indexes Say About Baseball and the World

Whether ranking baseball team fans or a country's unemployment and inflation rates, misery indexes can tell us about people's happiness.

April 18, 2019

Throwback Thursday: Remembering Standard Oil When We Look Forward to Amazon

#TBT: Today's Throwback Thursday looks back to why Standard Oil was divided into 34 companies by the Supreme Court in 1911 and then forward to Amazon.

April 12, 2019

How Shopping For Yogurt is Like Buying a Car

Recent research explains that our yogurt choice fatigue at the supermarket is rather similar to what we experience when buying a car.

April 8, 2019

Where Meat Is Never a Free Lunch

Cow burps were supposed to be the problem. As a substantial source of methane, cattle (and other ruminants) naturally boosted the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). […]