What Economists Say On Valentine’s Day

From graphs to behavioral economics and free trade, our Valentine’s economics again illustrates that economics is everywhere.

The Losers of the U.S. China Trade War

As economists would have predicted, looking at the US China trade war, we can see the negative impact on jobs and prices.

Labor Productivity: From the Bottom Up and Top Down

Crucial for economic growth, looking at labor productivity, we can focus on at home work and then the aggregate numbers.

Connecting the Cost of Living to the Minimum Wage

While the minimum wage economic debate tends to look at floors and job loss, instead it also needs a cost-of-living focus.

Inequality: From the Pineapple to Redistribution

While it can be interesting to see the massive incomes of the richest billionaires, global inequality is much more complicated.

January 2024 Friday’s e-links: The Best Finance Book

Continuing with our January e-links, I conclude by recommending a phenomenal history of finance and money from a Yale professor.

Where Mackerel Is Money

Having no access to cash, inmates use prison currency ithat could be cigarettes, or ramen, or even fish to buy things from each other.

What We Can Learn From Claudia Goldin

For work that spans half a century whose message is timeless, the Nobel committee awarded this year’s Economics Prize to Claudia Goldin.

In Two Americas, Just One Sees Goldilocks

Although their lenses differ, economists agree that we have two Americas with education, income, and life expectancy dividing us.

What If We Gave Google Search a Price?

Comparing a paid for Worldbook to a free Wikipedia, we can see that monetizing digital services would grow an understated GDP..