Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship

Nutrient-based tax could cut nation's medical bills

A 20 percent tax on fat, salt and sugar could cut consumption by nearly that much - and boost American health immeasurably, economists say.

Young 'pranksters' skewed landmark sexuality study

The joke's on human-sexuality researchers: "Prankster" adolescents may have faked "nonheterosexuality" in a widely cited health study, says Cornell's Ritch Savin-Williams.

Labor nonprofit donates archives to Kheel Center

Jobs With Justice, a nonprofit workers’ advocacy organization, will donate archival materials from its 25-year history to the ILR School’s Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives.

Economist on why emerging markets renege on loans

Research by Viktor Tsyrennikov, assistant professor of economics, may serve as an “early warning” default indicator for borrower nations.

Checking in on Foursquare can make new friends

The social media app Foursquare turns public spaces into "parochial" communities and helps people make new friends.

Student inventors receive innovation prizes

A medical scanning device, a microchip to detect cavities and a digital billboard system won three teams of student inventors Electrical and Computer Engineering Innovation awards Dec. 18.

Kheel Center to preserve workplace agreements

A federal grant will enable the ILR School's Kheel Center for Labor Management Documentation and Archives to digitize a century of collective bargaining contracts.

Super rich benefit from ‘status quo bias’

Senate filibuster rules "get in the way of policy change that could reduce inequality of all kinds, including income inequality," says Cornell's Peter K. Enns. "Significant changes in policy won’t come without institutional reform.”

‘Connectivity’ to be hallmark of Cornell Tech campus design

A Dec. 19 panel discussion in New York City outlined the vision for Cornell Tech’s permanent home, slated for groundbreaking in early 2014.