With a soaring proportion of households becoming cellphone-only users, on this #TBT we can look back at the disappearing landline.
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Lighting Up Our Lives
Our lighting history shows how artificial illumination used to be too costly to use and now is so cheap that we ignore it.
How Our French Fries Became More Expensive
When the price of your French fries increased during the past decade, one reason was a potato cartel that was rather similar to OPEC.
Why UPS and FedEx Have the Prisoners’ Dilemma
Planning their surcharge policy for the holiday shipping surge, UPS and FedEx each was influenced by the Prisoners’ Dilemma.
How Low-Skilled Immigrants Support Highly Skilled Women
In additional to debating the impact of immigration on less educated men, we should look at how highly skilled women are affected.
Weekly Economic News Roundup: From More Chickens to Fewer Eggs
Weekly News Roundup Sunday 07.30.17 Why supermarket self-service spread… Monday 07.31.17 How more Medicaid could mean less divorce… Tuesday 08.01.17 The ups and downs of egg prices… Wednesday 08.02.17 Where marijuana affected academic performance… …
The Development Debate About Chickens
When Bill Gates expressed his foundation’s support for giving chickens to people in extreme poverty, he ignited a debate about development programs.
Throwback Thursday: Remembering When We Were More Productive
On this #TBT, we can look back at the golden age of productivity growth to see when and how our standard of living improved.
Marijuana and Your Grade Average
According to a Dutch study, we can observe the impact of marijuana on academic performance in quantitative courses at Maastricht University.
How Egg Markets Are Scrambled
The most recent avian influenza outbreak was one of the worst. In the U.S., 32 million egg-laying hens died while one third of Iowa’s egg layers were wiped out. Predictably, egg prices spiked. Yes, no one expected those high prices…