April 22, 2014
Every student knows how hard it can be to pull yourself together and study. From a short-run perspective, being lazy […]
April 17, 2014
Twenty years after the Rwandan Genocide, many people discuss about the lessons to be drawn: Why have the United Nations […]
April 14, 2014
What if somebody told you that your job was completely irrelevant and useless? Would you still work with the same […]
April 11, 2014
Policy makers in many countries are thinking about legalizing the possession of small amounts of marihuana. For example, people in […]
April 7, 2014
There is ample evidence that fetuses are negatively affected by diseases and other health issues of the mother. But little […]
April 4, 2014
Typically, U.S. citizens devote much more time to their jobs than Europeans. Summing up weekends, holidays and vacations, the average […]
March 31, 2014
As the German sociologist Max Weber said back in 1904, the rise of capitalism is closely linked to the emergence […]
March 28, 2014
It is widely used among tennis players, ski jumpers and bodybuilders as a dietary supplement: Creatine, an organic acid that […]
March 26, 2014
Many countries in the Middle East and North Africa are characterized by low levels of per capita income, democracy and […]
March 18, 2014
Classic economic theory has long pursued the concept of homo economicus, which sees human beings as rational actors who are […]
March 17, 2014
The recent serious developments in the Ukraine expose growing tensions between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in the country, evident since […]
March 14, 2014
In light of the recent recession, the Spanish government eliminated a generous child benefit in 2011. Until December 31, 2010, […]
March 10, 2014
Austria is one of the countries that received most radioactive fallout as a result of the nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl […]
March 7, 2014
Honesty plays a very important role in economic life. It affects the productivity of employees who are not constantly monitored […]
March 3, 2014
Reservation wages represent the lowest wage for which an individual is willing to work. They are an important economic variable […]