What Jane Jacobs Can Teach Us About the Economy
Late urban champion's notions about decline and imports newly resonant during this recession.
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Did Financial Rules Mandate a Meltdown?
A libertarian look at the current pay kerfuffle for financial services companies suggests regulating executive compensation will not produce healthier capitalism.
School Lunch Brings Home the Bacon
An experiment in subsidizing school lunches to use locally raised commodities pays off both in the cafeteria and in the regional economy, one study finds.
Are Economic Rights Fundamental Human Rights?
In extolling human rights, the U.S. has traditionally pursued the ones that don't cost any money with greater vigor, even as its rhetoric suggests something different.
Economic Expansion: Teen Girls Gain Weight During Downturns
Lean times make for chubbier teenage girls. That's the conclusion of a newly published study that suggests the current recession may exacerbate the nation's obesity problem.
The Financial Carnage on Campus
Amid the destruction wrought by the global financial crisis, should American colleges and universities be seeking a bailout plan of their own?
Robert Shiller Is Running for the Entrances
The Yale economist known as a bubble-popper extraordinaire is bullish on tomorrow, even if that tomorrow may be a decade away.
Race Ball: Our National Pastime?
We look at studies analyzing Major League Baseball's race relations, economics and pop-ups.
Profit, Thy Name Is … Woman?
The consistent correlation between women executives and high profitability.
Moving Inner Cities Out of the Red, Into the Black
Researchers say America's chronically underserved urban cores are an untapped market that can sustain private investment — and turn themselves around in the process.