Long assumed to have a direct relationship, the connection between height and GDP becomes more complex when we compare India and Africa.
Economic Thinkers
Starting with Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations, continuing to Malthus, Ricardo, Keynes, Hayek, Friedman, Sen and others, the timeless ideas of economic thinkers provide understanding of the contemporary economy.
Why Money Might Not Motivate Us
Investigating intrinsic and extrinsic incentives, researchers have explained why money does not always promote positive performance.
Why the Social Security Crisis Has Begun
Caused by aging baby boomers, expanded criteria and the remnants of the great recession, SSDI entitlement spending is approaching insolvency.
Love, Marriage and Inequality
As female labor force participation increased since the 1970s, so too has the income inequality that resulted from assortative mating of higher earners.
What Tweets Can Say About the Dow
Researchers are exploring how message volume and sentiment analysis in social media like Twitter and Yahoo can be used to predict financial markets.
Why a Dollar Coin Might Not Be Money
In the U.S. the Federal Reserve tried to introduce metal dollar coins into the money supply but currency demand indicates that people prefer paper.
The Dangerous Side of Economics
Because he revised his country’s inaccurate deficit and received Eurostat approval, Greece’s chief statistician might be prosecuted for “breach of faith.”
Six Ways to Make Government Better
One of many examples in Peter Schuck’s new book, the Social Security program shows how government can be successful and also why it “fails so often.”
Tradeoffs and Marriage: Like a Horse and Carriage
As the pill, education and employment opportunities changed the value of women as wives, the tradeoffs that relate to being married have also changed.
The Vaccine Benefits That No One Talks About
With better school attendance and learning, and then higher work productivity, the positive externalities of childhood vaccination have an economic impact.