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Will global temperature rise inspire a behavior shift?
2014 was the hottest year on record. What's next for climate change policy and economics?
Weekend brunch: Apple starts making the rules and economic pickles
Reuters' Ben Walsh and Nicolas Carlson from Business Insider talk about the week's news.
Adapting microfinance to the 21st century
The father of microfinance, economist Muhammad Yunus, discusses the future of the microlending industry.
U.S. economy to ‘grow’ 3% under new GDP calculation
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The U.S. economy will grow by 3 percent this summer, due to a change in the data used to calculate GDP.
The Excel mistake heard round the world
The flurry of budget deficit reduction talks we've heard in the past three years was based on faulty research–an Excel spreadsheet mistake.
American Airlines grounded; economists make Excel mistake
A computer glitch and an Excel mistake each made today's news.
Raj Chetty: Exploring how the economy works in real life
Raj Chetty just won the John Bates Clark Medal for economists under the age of 40. We walk with him through one of his experiments that shed light on how people make economic decisions.
Does the language you speak affect how much you save?
An economics professor at Yale has found the way a speaker uses the future tense can affect their likelihood of saving.
Nobel prize-winner Alvin Roth: ‘Certainly didn’t see it coming’
Stanford economist Alvin Roth shares this year's Nobel Prize for Economics for his work designing and creating markets where there were none.
Nobel awarded for economics of matchmaking
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This year's Nobel Prize in economics goes to a pair of researchers who've worked in the field of matching people to the things they want, in markets like health care and employment.