Whether ranking baseball team fans or a country's unemployment and inflation rates, misery indexes can tell us about people's happiness.
Recent research explains that our yogurt choice fatigue at the supermarket is rather similar to what we experience when buying a car.
When Chuck E. Cheese changed the kinds of payment cards that kids and their parents used for games and food, they created new spending incentives.
Using 85 observable characteristics, there was little that researchers could use from a Swedish study to prove why the glass ceiling blocks female CEOs.
While it sounds simple to charge vehicles for driving in a certain area, New York's actual congestion pricing plan is much more complex.
Random and seemingly inconsequential incentives can nudge us toward the college majors that will shape our future incomes and lifestyles.
Looking at Norway, a large bank, and the University of California, we see that transparency can make us care more about income inequality.
Looking at the Philadelphia sugary drinks tax, we would find it did not accomplish many of its goals in three major categories.
After closing all of their Panera Cares Cafes where customers were supposed "pay what you want," Panera might have a problem with the IRS.
While awards are all about recognition, inspiration, and appreciation, sometimes they are not exactly what we expect them to be.
By avoiding repugnant transactions like selling foie gras or human organs, we are eliminating the benefits of the market.
To recline or not to recline an airplane seat is a problem for passengers and airlines because of pitch, profits, property rights, and your philosophy.












