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Amazing Elasticity

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The $.30 Question

The High Cost of Trendy Living: A Slight Variation on the Obvious Explanation

What Would It Take to Make You Take a Spammer Seriously?

Your Foot in the Door and Your Stuff in the Store

The Sub-Utopianism of the Market

Coase in Detroit

Heroes Call Me Friend: Formal Reputation on the Hero Games Discussion Boards

Is Tax Evasion a Good Investment?

The Rojas Effect

Lecture on Mechanism Design

Talk About Perverse Incentives

How Much Cash Is In Your Wallet? Why?

Why Don't Hispanics Beg in America?

Tabarrok Corrects Rodrik (and a Lot of Textbooks)

There's No Such Thing as a Free Vegan Lunch

Nominal Rigidities and the Law of One Price Break Down

Polygamy Meets Economy

Amazing Elasticity

Unions and Productivity

The Gasoline Market

The $.30 Question

The High Cost of Trendy Living: A Slight Variation on the Obvious Explanation

What Would It Take to Make You Take a Spammer Seriously?

Your Foot in the Door and Your Stuff in the Store

The Sub-Utopianism of the Market

Coase in Detroit

Heroes Call Me Friend: Formal Reputation on the Hero Games Discussion Boards

Is Tax Evasion a Good Investment?

The Rojas Effect

Lecture on Mechanism Design

Talk About Perverse Incentives

How Much Cash Is In Your Wallet? Why?

Why Don't Hispanics Beg in America?

Tabarrok Corrects Rodrik (and a Lot of Textbooks)

There's No Such Thing as a Free Vegan Lunch

Nominal Rigidities and the Law of One Price Break Down

Polygamy Meets Economy

The Wonder That Is Dog

Why Do Book-Sellers Discount Popular Books?

Bio-Economics in the Courtroom

Princess Mahalanobis: Blog Baby

Division of Labor in Graphic Novels

Taking Out the Competition

My Take on Take-Out

My Guess on Take-Out

The Missing Take-Out

Scrooge and the Junker Fallacy

Ice Cream Demand

The Presumption of Elasticity

Economics in Candyland

The Sociology of the V.R.W.C.

Shocked, Shocked!: Opposition to the XM-Sirius Merger

Collusion in the Classroom

Another Puzzle from the Tower Bankruptcy Sale

What I Learned at the Tower Records Going Out of Business Sale

Save Your Breath

Analytical Egalitarianism and Truth-Seeking: Strain the Gnat, Swallow the Camel

The Draft: Who Pays the Price?

Dochia On Analytical Egalitarianism

Can You Save Egalitarianism By Making It "Analytical"?

Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism"

What Do You Want to Be Free to Choose?

Tower Records Going Out of Business... For Real

Peak Load Pricing at the Movies

Classic Catallarchy

The Joy of the Switch

The Marginal Myth

Hair Length and the Demand for Haircuts, II

Hair Length and the Demand for Haircuts

When Is Entry "Easy"?

Polygamy: Economics vs. History

Imperfect Information and the Generation Gap

Evolutionary Psych and the Generation Gap

Tabarrok and Caplan at WSJ.com

Motivating Sheep

Aren't You Cold?

Solve Tyler's Puzzle

Get Ready for Rhoads: Test Your Gender Identity

Howard Hughes and the Economics of Mental Illness

The Seen and the Unseen: Wegmans, Manhattan, and Slow Growth

Random Punishment

Schumpeter's Spectacle: How I Underestimated Cinematic Competition

The Selfish Reason to Have More Kids

Asymmetric Price Adjustment

Bundling II

Coase and Dean

Price Discrimination and Profitability

Economics of Water

Minimum Wage and CEO Pay

Demand Too Elastic?

Labor Supply and Demand

Steven Levitt

Basic Supply and Demand

Employees as Owners

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Congestion Tax Works


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June 29, 2008

Amazing Elasticity



Here's another margin of gasoline price-elasticity to add to Greg Mankiw's list: Netflix now advertises "Save Gas. Let us deliver......MORE

June 16, 2008

Unions and Productivity



Ezra Klein writes, It's an article of faith for some on the right that unions wreck productivity. Not in the......MORE

May 7, 2008

The Gasoline Market



Megan McArdle likes to tell a story with charts. I like to tell it this way. There is a wholesale......MORE

May 6, 2008

The $.30 Question



Amazon has been charging $19.77 for my book for almost a year. But very recently, they cut the price to......MORE

April 13, 2008

The High Cost of Trendy Living: A Slight Variation on the Obvious Explanation



In The Logic of Life, Tim Harford tries to figure out why rents in New York and other trendy urban......MORE

April 10, 2008

What Would It Take to Make You Take a Spammer Seriously?



Following up on my last question, what would it take to make you take a spammer seriously? Imagine that one......MORE

April 10, 2008

Your Foot in the Door and Your Stuff in the Store



I've previously argued that you usually need extensive educational credentials just to get an interview for anything more than a......MORE

March 30, 2008

The Sub-Utopianism of the Market



Remember Joel Waldfogel's The Tyranny of the Market? Waldfogel's thesis, as he explains in Slate: "For small groups with preferences......MORE

February 12, 2008

Coase in Detroit



Suppose you signed a contract to pay a worker $100k a year for life. Then a competitor shows up an......MORE

January 20, 2008

Heroes Call Me Friend: Formal Reputation on the Hero Games Discussion Boards



Last week, Alex Tabarrok (who is co-authoring a principles textbook with Tyler Cowen) asked me for good examples of non-monetary......MORE

December 6, 2007

Is Tax Evasion a Good Investment?



Gary Becker strongly suggests that it is:If taxpayers responded only to the expected cost of evading taxes, evasion would be......MORE

October 31, 2007

The Rojas Effect



For Halloween, here's the true, spooky story of how I met Fabio Rojas: In the Fall of 1989, young Rojas,......MORE

October 17, 2007

Lecture on Mechanism Design



He's not a Nobel Laureate, but Al Roth gave a recent lecture at Google on the topic. He talks about......MORE

September 7, 2007

Talk About Perverse Incentives



I hope I'm misunderstanding Ed Glaeser, but I don't think I am:Since the rich should not be subsidized, the transfer......MORE

September 4, 2007

How Much Cash Is In Your Wallet? Why?



At a recent GMU lunch, two economists sparred over the optimal quantity of cash to keep in one's wallet. Economist......MORE

August 23, 2007

Why Don't Hispanics Beg in America?



How often has an Hispanic asked you for spare change? I've lived around LA, San Francisco, NYC, and DC, all......MORE

August 13, 2007

Tabarrok Corrects Rodrik (and a Lot of Textbooks)



Today Alex makes a point that I drill into my graduate students: The assumptions underlying the standard market efficiency theorems......MORE

August 6, 2007

There's No Such Thing as a Free Vegan Lunch



Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch? At least in downtown D.C., they're not hard to find.......MORE

August 3, 2007

Nominal Rigidities and the Law of One Price Break Down



Behavioral economists often emphasize nominal rigidities - such as the tendency of list prices to stay the same in the......MORE

July 9, 2007

Polygamy Meets Economy



Even if you think my earlier posts on HBO's Big Love were gratuitous, you can't deny the economic relevance of......MORE


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