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As the 2023 Meaningful Economics Competition kicked off May 23 amid the happy hubbub of a roomful of third-grade students, at least a couple of adults in the room were reliving old memories. The ...

Being the econ nerds that we are here at Planet Money and The Indicator, this Thanksgiving we want to give thanks for economic insights that improved our lives, solved a problem, or just plain ...

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This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. Last week, news spread that a Chinese AI company, DeepSeek, had built a cutting-edge chatbot at a fraction of the cost of its ...

Australian Medical Doctor; Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Health & NCDs, Harvard University Last post, I humbly introduced the first of two economic concepts I believe are key to a better, healthier ...

We have been conditioned to bring our own bags to the grocery store, carry metal straws, drink from non-disposable bottles and dispose of our trash in the right bin. But will these actions really save ...

There is no concept in economics today that is as poorly understood as inflation. Academic economists, investment professionals, media pundits, and politicians all wallow in confusion about what it is ...

I remember my professor of economic history David S. Landes often talking about Joel Mokyr, who won the Nobel Prize in economics earlier this month. They must have been good friends. Professor Landes ...