(Photo: The Dapper Dan)When starvation, rather tha...  ...u see the world, not only our food system and the economics

Zach Weinersmith points out that intellectual standards in one discipline don't always apply in others. Keep cycling through until you end up in the humanities. Or plumbing. We'll always need plumbers.Link...

Three years ago, Peter Backus of the University of Warwick released a paper explaining why, mathematically, it was almost impossible for him to find a girlfriend. His calculations were premised upon the Drake equation:Th...

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End cost $300 million to produce. Oz the Great and Powerful is said to have cost $325 million. And that doesn't include the cost of marketing, which can be just as much, or even...

On the island of Sodor in the Irish Sea, sentient locomotives carry passengers and cargo everywhere. Alex Knapp of Forbes watches a lot of the children's television show Thomas & Friends and has been trying to unders...

James Bond's foes concoct wild schemes for power and money, some less realistic than others. Which ones, from an economic point of view, were feasible? Jean-Jacques Dethier, a development economist working for the World...

The Atlantic Cities has a chart that and calculates how long it would take a person making the average wage in the top 100 American cities to save up for a down payment on a 2,000-square-foot home based on the average pr...

According to Wikipedia, Opportunity Cost is "the c...  ...pportunity cost question that stumps far too many economics students. Answer this: "You won a free ticket to...

It's obviously a great weapon to strike down your...  ...d better check out this great article over on the economics blog Centives that goes into figuring out just ho...

The economy was tanking. Millions lost their jobs. Stocks were down. And since bankers seemed to be riding out the bad times better than anyone, the government appointed a commission to look into who was to blame for the...