Take a deeper look into diseconomies of scale, the economic phenomenon that can make companies less efficient as they become too large.

Intangible assets include intellectual property, brand equity, customer relationships, and proprietary technology. Companies with a cost advantage are those able to produce their goods or services at ...

The Federal Reserve’s large-scale purchases of long-term Treasury securities most likely provided a moderate boost to economic growth and inflation. Importantly, the effects appear to depend greatly ...

Discover how the peer-to-peer economy differs from traditional capitalism, emphasizing direct transactions without intermediaries for increased efficiency and innovation.

The ability to achieve economies of scale is the foundation of much of the world’s modern wealth. In the original Ford Motor factory in Detroit, the company managed to gradually take the time required ...

The Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 50, No. 1 (January-March 2019), pp. 33-43 (11 pages) The authors describe an innovative active learning strategy for a course on the economics of developing ...

The data center is the bedrock of the insight economy. To be competitive, enterprises need IT infrastructure that can process data at scale, on a cost-effective basis. However, many organizations ...

Every country wants growth. At its core, growth reflects a country’s capacity to shape its own path, provide for its people, and remain relevant in a world where change is the only constant. Across ...

One of the crucial economic lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is the importance of diversifying local economies, even in America’s largest cities. New York City continues to struggle with an economy ...