Our weekly roundup includes how productivity affects music industry writers, the surprising impact of cheap oil and how tech shapes what the superrich earn.
Our everyday economics includes wages, externalities, productivity, income, tradeoff, taxes, fiscal policy, gender, human capital and comparative advantage.
Personal income relates to how long we sleep. Less sleep can diminish the productivity that brings a higher wage. But also, less sleep means more work time.
While everyone refers to the middle class and most of us say we are in the middle class, few know the characteristics of the group to which they refer.
It is a mystery whether college matters because it creates better human capital or creates signals that indicate graduates completed a long-term task.
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