Richard Holden, UNSW Vital Signs is a regular economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise…
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Vital Signs is a regular economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events…
Floraes Mallewagen (Flora’s wagon of fools): Hendrik Gerritsz Pot, c1640 (photo: Laura Blanchard), CC BY-SA Anne Goldgar, King’s College London Right now, it’s Bitcoin. But…
Larry Fink, right, shared a stage with several of the CEOs he urged to spend more time doing good. Stuart Ramson/AP Images for The Women’s…
Why the global stock market crash doesn’t really matter By Jay L. Zagorsky, Economist and Research Scientist, The Ohio State University. Another jittery day on…
Richard Holden, UNSW If 2018 pans out like some of the early commentary suggests then we’re in for a rough year. If you believe the…
The inventor at rest, with a Tesla coil (thanks to a double exposure). Dickenson V. Alley, Wellcome Collection, CC BY Richard Gunderman, Indiana University Match…
Skimming oil in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon spill, May 29, 2010. NOAA , CC BY Donald Boesch, University of Maryland…
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation The year 2017 may turn out to be when behavioral economics entered the mainstream after a leading practitioner in the field…
Barry Markovsky, University of South Carolina Ancient and quaint seem the days of witch crazes, demon scares and tulip manias. Instances of mass hysteria may…
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Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University It is almost Christmas time, and the song “Santa Claus is coming to town” keeps playing over and…
Arend Hintze, Michigan State University Are you tired of telling machines what to do and what not to do? It’s a large part of regular…
Sharona Hoffman, Case Western Reserve University The announcement that CVS plans to acquire Aetna for US$69 billion raises hope and concerns. The transaction would create…
Larisa Yarovaya, Anglia Ruskin University and Brian Lucey, Trinity College Dublin In the last year, the price of Bitcoin has increased from less than US$800…