economics

Finland Wants To Revamp Its Welfare System By Simply Giving People Cash

Universal base income is a radically simple plan that just might work.
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How Economic Inequality Makes Terror Attacks More Likely

A rock star economist argues the new Gilded Age is more costly than we thought.
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An Open Apology To Smart Women Everywhere

Women deserve more credit than we give them.
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What You Need To Know About Angus Deaton, Who Just Won The Nobel Prize In Economics

The work of Princeton professor Angus Deaton focuses on measuring poverty around the world.
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New Study Finds Recessions Mean Fewer Babies

The effects appear to linger even after the economy is back on its feet.
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What Makes Something Money?

Today we know money as coins, bills, and credit cards. But it wasn't always this way.Over the centuries, money took many bizarre forms--from sea shells to cakes of salt to even giant stone discs, which date back some several hundred years on the island of Yap. HuffPost Science's Jacqueline Howard reports.
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10 Ways You Can Help Stop The Sixth Mass Extinction

Yes, it's true that about a third of species we've evaluated are threatened with extinction, and that we've killed about half of all our wildlife in the past forty years. But with all the gloomy predictions being thrown about, you may not know that the Sixth Mass Extinction is not a done deal.
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If You Want the American Dream, Go to Finland

The American dream --- the notion of equal opportunity for all, the chance to pull yourself up by your boot straps and make something of yourself --- is gone.
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