Megan Mcardle

The gift economy operates on something called reciprocal altruism

The Chinese govt's intervention might have saved its stock market, but it may not be enough to sustain a recovery

Ad-blocking used to be something a handful of geeks did. Now, it's very mainstream. If this continues, we are looking at the future of online journalism, and the future is broke

Even in the absence of price-gouging laws, some businesses try to avoid raising prices under extreme conditions. Uber, however, just called it 'surge pricing' and let prices rise with demand

Travelocity was bad for travel agents. Toyota was bad for General Motors. Why should authors be any different

Outside of some specialty trade publications, subscriptions have never covered the cost of producing newspapers