November 22, 2018
Looking at our holiday meal through a turkey top ten list, you can see how Thanksgiving economics is about so much more than money.
November 18, 2018
While the Air Quality Index (AQI) is a pollution yardstick, it also can signal if we are controlling the tragedy of the commons.
November 15, 2018
Unknown to most of us, the quality of customer service can depend on the multiple customer lifetime value (CLV) scores that we get from retailers.
November 13, 2018
With the arrival of mandatory calorie labels at large establishments and soon at smaller ones, we can ask if their impact is predictable.
November 5, 2018
When Seattle tried using Democracy Vouchers to support campaign finance, the results were not entirely what they had expected.
October 24, 2018
Just like tipping wages vary from state to state, so too do arguments from servers, kitchen staff, and restaurant owners for keeping or eliminating them.
October 22, 2018
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October 15, 2018
Because a firm like Uber loses revenue from unhappy riders who had delayed arrivals, we could say we are looking at apology economics.
October 9, 2018
First awarded more than 70 years after the original Nobel Prizes began, the Nobel Economics Prize is worth some unexpected extras.
September 27, 2018
When we pay through an honor system, retailers depend on our economic honesty while researchers are trying to understand it.
September 20, 2018
Not knowing what behavioral economists say about "zero," the Russian Domino's was surprised by the response to a free pizza promotion.