February 20, 2019
Involving safety, airline pilots' decisions during takeoff, flight, and landing reflect cost and benefit tradeoffs that their passengers rarely recognize.
February 19, 2019
Attempts to encourage African wildlife conservation have changed incentives that affect African villagers and U.S. hunters.
February 18, 2019
February 11, 2019
The preliminary results for Finland's two-year guaranteed income experiment appears to have created more questions than it answered.
January 20, 2019
Unexpectedly, Panera's pay-what-you-want cafes couldn't bring together the normal lunch crowd and people who could not afford a meal.
January 16, 2019
While we all know when we are wasting time on social media, it is tougher to uncover the hidden cost that is paid by the entire economy.
January 13, 2019
Whether looking at an art heist, government shutdown negotiations or a soccer shootout, game theory can explain people's behavior.
January 7, 2019
Whether it's plastic straw use, energy conservation, or flu vaccinations, governments use nudges to influence our decisions.
December 28, 2018
We can judge the size of our cultural divide by identifying the TV shows we watch, the magazines we read, and the movies we see.
December 27, 2018
Although you'll see that the Amazon reviews for How to Avoid Huge Ships are hilarious, it's still one of those unwanted gifts that creates deadweight loss.
December 26, 2018
A nation's generous paternity leave policy does not necessarily diminish the size of the gender pay gap or job discrimination against women.
December 23, 2018
From the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, our expectations for fast letter and package delivery have changed considerably.