Sophievella

The general economic context of where and when you grow up matters. Think, for example, of those raised during the Great Depression in the U...

For as long as music has existed, artists have lived from performing. The advent of packaged music (radio, TV, disk, tape or CD) has changed...

I do not like awards. They always create jealousies, and one cannot help that whenever a committee is involved, something may not have gone ...

Money does not have to be supplied by government. Private money could work under some circumstances, and it has in particular been argued th...

One aspect of government purchases the current crisis has highlighted is how volatile they can be. Quite obviously, they are influenced by p...

I a perfect world with heterogeneous workers and jobs, the matches are those that maximize efficiency. But when information about the qualit...

Understanding why some countries are poor and why some grow than others is probably one of the most important questions in Economics. The tr...