I wrote a piece for Time.com about the decision at Starbucks to shutter 600 stores. You can read it here. It’s brilliant and all, but the real reason I’m blogging is so that I can pass along this text my friend Richard sent me over the weekend: Starbucks is toast—waiting in line for the bathroom [...]
As America’s Leading Source of News About the Danish EconomyTM, the Curious Capitalist is legally required to report this important information released Monday by the University of Michigan’s World Values Survey: The results indicate that Denmark is the happiest nation in the world and Zimbabwe the unhappiest. The United States ranks 16th on the list, [...]
How can you be for free trade yet against (or at least worried about) globalization? Ralph E. Gomory and William Baumol would like to tell you: On what grounds can we, as free trade advocates, assert that globalization can harm the country? A straightforward explanation suffices: In standard analyses of trade, economists usually assign fixed [...]
