Our economic news summary includes underutilizing female labor, delayed gratification, pricing medical care, interstate migration & assessing labor markets.
Why Government Needs to Catch Up With Uber
When Uber, Lyft and others in the sharing economy create a new category of jobs, outdated labor laws can create negative externalities.
Why We Need Sunday Shopping
To fuel French economic growth, productivity and employment, a controversial law will allow more Sunday shopping but the business/leisure debate continues.
Weekly Roundup: From Burgers to Boomer Demographics
Our everyday economics includes disposable income,competition,externalities, standardization,entrepreneurs,federal budget, R&D, labor and dependency ratios.
How Uber Upsets the Status Quo
Labor market innovations are examples of why the people who started Uber can be called high impact entrepreneurs who fuel creative destruction.
Weekly Roundup: From Vodka to Tax Dodgers
Our weekly roundup includes stories from everyday economics that relate to creative destruction, taxation, price floors, labor markets and entitlements.
Why Would a Firm Not Want 50 Employees?
Economist Casey Mulligan says that the Affordable Care Act will impact labor markets by diminishing productively through perverse incentives.
Our Weekly Roundup: From Argentina to North Dakota
Today’s weekly roundup includes the everyday economics of sovereign debt defaults, oil boom towns, athletes’ labor markets and the GDP.
The Tour de France Gender Gap
Typified by the Tour de France, male/female athletes’ salary gender gap will diminish when female athletes’ media, consumer and commercial appeal increase.