economics

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Brady, LeBron and the economics of G.O.A.T.

The NFL has changed the rules over time, to better protect quarterbacks and promote a more offensively-oriented game.


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Unemployment is lower than it’s been in at least 42 years.


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Statistics Canada again tried to explain the productivity slowdown of the last two decades.


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Cash transactions are fastest, with a mean completion time of 15 seconds.


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Back then, many countries including Germany, Japan and the United States embraced List’s tariff walls.


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The “demand curve” starts high and then falls.


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An argument you hear a lot these days is that if the state paid for daycare, then more mothers would enter the workforce.


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Universities are actually eager to increase the proportion of female professors.


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Econ Journal Watch—a web-based triannual journal and podcast—has provided an outlet for pointed, constructive criticism of professional economics for 15 years.


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Only surprises have real effects, Friedman argued, but their effects last only until people realize what’s going on.