Virginia Tech revealed their Week 1 uniforms at a Waffle House 🧇 The Hokies will face South Carolina in Atlanta a week from today.

A knitting bean just beat Google and ChatGPT in the App Store. Focus Friend is the latest productivity app to catch fire, but the economics behind its success explain why it’s more than just cute. mondayeconomist.com/p/focus-friend

Welcome Professor Katherine Bartuska! She’s teaching Economics of Gender this fall, bringing experience from USAID where she advised on humanitarian programs that serve marginalized communities. #HokieEconomics

Welcome Professor Nathaniel Myers! This fall he’ll teach AI-Driven Data Analysis for Economics. Outside the classroom, he leads a data analytics team at Technomics supporting NNSA Defense Programs. #HokieEconomics

Welcome back Dr. Zhengzheng Pan! She’s teaching Economics of Startups after an incredible career at Facebook and Ant Financial, where she helped lead a $313B IPO. #HokieEconomics

Welcome Dr. David Wang! This fall he’ll teach International Finance. At the IMF, he’s a Senior Financial Sector Expert working on climate finance and global capital markets. #HokieEconomics IMF

This week's articles include topics on: 🗽 Jobs in NYC 🧰 Home Depot prices 📚 Reading for pleasure 💰 Book taxes 🤳Online grocery shopping Check them out at: mondayeconomist.com/p/tuesdays-ass…

Come join us Penn State Econ for the Midwest Trade & Theory Conference in mid-November. Submission deadline is September 6. Details here: sites.google.com/view/midwesttr…

There’s 365 days in the year & you choose today ????

The TI-84 looks the same as it did in the early 2000s. Competitors exist, so why do students still pay $100 for one? The answer has less to do with features and more to do with economics. mondayeconomist.com/p/graphing-cal…

Economists watch many signals for signs of recession. One of the quirkiest? Cardboard boxes. With producers cutting nearly 9% of capacity, the “cardboard box index” may be flashing a warning. mondayeconomist.com/p/cardboard-bo…

On Sept. 16 at 7:30 PM in the Squires Recital Salon, a new documentary premieres featuring Dr. Gebre’s story, from prisoner of war in Ethiopia to professor at Virginia Tech. 🎥 A Q&A with Dr. Gebre to follow. Join us for this inspiring event!

I think I’ve come up with a fun way to teach relative elasticities using a twist on a popular icebreaker. I'm trying it out in class tomorrow! If it goes well, I’ll share how it worked and post a quick how-to!

Happy to see this paper finally published, thanks to the work of my amazing co-authors! We looked at how restricting fan attendance affected home advantage in NCAA basketball, using the natural experiment created by COVID-era attendance policies. 🔗 tandfonline.com/eprint/PV2Q4QV…

I’m forming an “economics education writing group” for this fall. Such groups work as a commitment device to help academics write more. We’ll meet on Wednesdays on Zoom from 9am to 11am (eastern time). For more information, please e-mail me at [email protected] .

Someone buys you a coffee and texts: “Just Venmo me $7.58.” Do you round up or pay the exact amount? That tiny decision says more about your brain (and your social instincts) than you might think. Read the full piece: mondayeconomist.com/p/venmo

Parking for an upcoming event is $12.45 if you purchase online in advance, but you can pay when you get there for $10 in cash. What an incredibly backward incentive...

I was looking through some old files to find something for my class this term, and came across this horrible idea from 2015. I think I'm starting to realize why my students didn't like me much back then. I probably thought this was hilarious!

Big thank you to Louisville Athletics for the Pudge hospitality 🤝 WE LOVE IT!!!!