March 3, 2020
When Hermes combined very high prices with limited availability for its Birkin bags, it not only generated conspicuous consumption but also a problem.
February 28, 2020
Looking at coronavirus as a Black Swan Event, we can better grasp its predictability, its impact, and its similarly to other exceptional crises.
February 26, 2020
When companies replace single use cups with mugs and glasses, the employee response has been somewhat like our use of gym memberships.
February 19, 2020
Economic anthropologists focus on the human side of money when they see us now and in the past, as individuals, as families, and as one world.
February 7, 2020
Whether looking at great apes or humans, there is evidence that all of us experience a dip in our happiness curves at a similar stage of the life cycle.
February 2, 2020
While many of us think that restaurants sell us food, economists point out that they are actually renting space to diners for several hours.
January 24, 2020
With signs that increase gender equality in public spaces, a female presence can be explicitly recognized and affect infrastructure design and jobs.
January 6, 2020
Thinking about changing habits that are good and bad, we can look at what researchers discovered during a popcorn experiment.
January 2, 2020
To keep our New Year's resolutions, behavioral economics has several simple suggestions that painlessly preserve our discipline.
December 25, 2019
After an economist long ago told us that gift giving adds less to economic activity than the price of the present, a pro-gift giving group disagreed.
November 26, 2019
More than shopping nudges, e-commerce dark patterns are the deceptive and misleading tricks that pressure us into a purchase.
November 19, 2019
Comparing in-store and online grocery shopping, we see that what we experience in the supermarket and what we order from home is changing.