Economic History Archives - Econlife (original) (raw)
June 3, 2025
How Water Can Reduce Traffic Congestion
As the city with the worst traffic congestion in the world, Lagos, Nigeria will be developing a unique solution.
May 8, 2025
What a Phone Booth Tells Us
Looking at product history, we can see how goods and services are tangible signposts that identify economic growth.
March 30, 2025
The Surprising Impact of the SUV
To reduce traffic congestion, one surprising cause can be added to inadequate mass transit and population sprawl.
February 23, 2025
What a Mail Truck Means
From the first postal service to now, and horses to mail trucks, mail delivery has always added to our information infrastructure.
January 31, 2025
Should We Charge Our Electric Cars?
A problem that needs to be solved, dwindling federal highway funding requires solutions that have a slew of tradeoffs.
January 21, 2025
The Three R’s of Trade Policy
Dartmouth economics professor Doug Irwin uses R, R, and R, to summarize centuries of trade. Revenue Restrictions Reciprocity Using the three R’s, we can look back […]
November 15, 2024
Why We Want Fewer Roads
Looking at cost and benefit in 316 urban areas, a recent study from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that rather than taking city streets for granted, we should ponder the alternatives.
November 12, 2024
How Nvidia Changed the Dow
Looking at the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and its recent changes, we can also see some U.S. financial history.
November 10, 2024
What History Says About Tariffs
Whether looking at the 1930s or now, we see that the impact of tariffs on businesses, on global trade, and on government revenue is negative.
October 9, 2024
Disaster Economics
Looking at disaster economics, we can calculate the cost through a timeline that takes us to before, during, and after.
October 8, 2024
When a Mortgage Is Like a Hurricane
The United States can move money from regions with money to those that need it for needs that include mortgages and hurricanes.
October 2, 2024
How the Pandemic Increased Our Stock Market Wealth
During the pandemic, depending on your age and gender, changes in investor behavior increased stock market wealth.