economics
Prediction market sites allow users to put money on everything from the war in Iran to the winner of the Super Bowl. But where did these markets come from? And …
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The numbers can’t be any clearer: a DDoS attack costs less than a hundred dollars, while the price tag for mitigating it might reach tens if not hundreds of tho…
THE Philippines was judged to be the eighth most vulnerable to El Niño-related weather disruptions among 77 economies…
We here at Planet Money love economics papers. And that is also the case for so many of the economists we speak with. For them, new research can explain somethi…
You might expect to find economic concepts in the pages of an economics textbook. But you know where you can really see a lot of economic concepts in action? Bu…
The world of economics has these two different sides. One one side, there are the economists in their cozy armchairs and dusty libraries, high up in their ivory…
Some of the most influential and beloved novels of the last few years have been about money, finance, and the global economy. Some overtly so, others more subtl…
Economics Job Market Rumors is a website that's half a job information Wiki, where people post about what's going on inside economics departments, and half a di…
There are tons of markets that don't exist because people just don't want to allow a market – for whatever reason, people feel icky about putting a price on som…
