economics

A Curious Reader asks: When and why did parking become monetized?

Can housework be anything other than drudgery? Maybe part of the problem is that we consistently devalue unpaid work.

Mass layoffs, high unemployment, and home foreclosures resulted in declines in mental health. There may also be long-term effects that linger.

Back in the 1960s, scholars were making predictions about what the Age of Automation would look like. Where they right?

How the archetype of the quirky, brilliant tech entrepreneur whose ideas could change the world migrated from high-tech hacker culture to Wall Street.

Even the (presumably rational) economists of the world love to try to predict the future. They often get it wrong, suggesting that all the rational data in the world is rendered useless by the irrationality of human behavior.

Under coverture, married English women had no rights to their property, even though unmarried women did, making for a unique system in Europe.

An early paper by Elizabeth Warren argues for a Financial Product Safety Commission that would regulate financial products.

How did the QWERTY keyboard became the gold standard? The answer is probably not what you'd think. Welcome to the economic concept of "path dependence."

A history of civilization could be written in fertilizers. And the history of guano—bird poop—tells us a lot about slavery, imperialism, and U.S. expansion.