Weekly Roundup: From Grocery Bags to Soda Bottles

Our everyday economics includes developing nations, human capital, environment, behavioral economics, consumer spending, health care,incentives & sin taxes.

Weekly Roundup: From Desirable Currency to Rejected Coins

Our everyday economics includes gender gap, human capital, competition, regulation, opportunity cost, money supply, currency and conspicuous consumption.

A One is Enough Gender Gap Problem

A new study showing the prevalence of a “one is enough” cap on the number of female top executives at many firms confirms a continuing gender gap.

Weekly Roundup: From Thirsty Almonds to Potent Alcohol

Our everyday economics includes human capital, incentives, behavioral economics, cost and benefit, exports, tradeoffs, inequality, risk,markets, and income.

Does the Ivy League Diploma Matter?

With the human capital in elite jobs dominated by Ivy League or other prestigious schools graduates, we can ask if it’s those diplomas that really matter.

Pop Music’s Risk Takers

The popular music industry is a risk based culture in which addictive substances touring, irregular hours and stress create high mortality rates.

Why It’s Tough to Evaluate Job Performance

If a performance metric is known, the people being evaluated have an incentive to shift their behavior so that their scores improve but not the job they do.

Weekly Roundup: From Good Voices to Bad Marriages

Our everyday economics includes GDP, human capital, price system, public goods, taxes, gender pay gap, externalities, subsidies, marriage economics and ROI.

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.

Weekly Roundup: From New Drachma to Old Monetary Dilemmas

Our everyday economics includes foreign exchange, human capital, economic growth, GDP, inflation, unemployment, monetary policy, tradeoffs and deleveraging.