During the World Cup, fans of the U.S. team embraced the song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver, released more than fifty years ago.
That song - and that state - point the way to a lesson in economics, as Dr. Claudia Kramer will tell you.
She is the Scott L. Probasco Distinguished Chair of Free Enterprise in the Gary W. Rollins College of Business here on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
She writes a monthly column - “The Exchange” - for the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.