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August 15, 2014
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August 15, 2014
How Music Can Empower You

Like athletes use music before competing, so too can we energize our human capital at work with music that empowers us physiologically and psychologically.

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August 14, 2014
August 14, 2014
Here's What You Probably Didn't Know About Tipping

Like all minimum wages, the tipping minimum wage theoretically is an economic floor that stops wages from falling to equilibrium and creates job shortages.

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August 13, 2014
EverydAY economics roundup competition
August 13, 2014
Back to the Future… of Air Travel

Although 82% of the U.S. airline industry is dominated by 4 airlines, it is not a typical oligopoly because of new small airlines flying routes that the bigger carriers cut.

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August 12, 2014
Everyday Economics: The Contents of Refrigerators, Supply and Demand, and Global Markets
August 12, 2014
What Refrigerators Can Tell Us About Global Markets

In refrigerators in developing nations, we can see the impact of affluence on their diet and on supply and demand that will change worldwide food prices.

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August 11, 2014
weekly economic roundup and pension income systems
August 11, 2014
Will You Get Your Social Security Benefits?

The 2014 Social Security Trustees Report says that after we deplete the remains of the program's trust funds in 2033, payroll taxes will not provide all promised benefits.

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August 10, 2014
Everyday Economics — Oil stories
August 10, 2014
The Message From NFL Ticket Prices

Through the price system, because many consumers and businesses make buying and selling decisions for the same good or service, price conveys information.

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August 8, 2014
Consumer surplus is over estimated for cost-benefit analysis of new tobacco regulation
August 8, 2014
Can We Use Happiness to Evaluate Tobacco Legislation?

Mandated by Ronald Reagan and approved by subsequent presidents, cost-benefit analysis of federal regulation could be inaccurate for new tobacco regulation.

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August 7, 2014
optimal store design
August 7, 2014
Why is the Milk at the Back of the Store?

Because market structure shapes a firm's behavior, a supermarket's product placement relates to the monopolistic competition that characterizes its market.

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August 6, 2014
Everyday economics A more accurate picture of African Development emerges when we combine statistics and stories.
August 6, 2014
Understanding African Development Through Stories and Stats

By combining stories from Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah and statistics, we can create a more realistic picture of African development.

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August 5, 2014
multigenerational Individual wealth
August 5, 2014
Seeding change: seeds or change?

Cash grants are an alternative form of foreign aid. Tough to accept, cash could have more benefits than other traditional programs.

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August 4, 2014
The spread of refrigeration in China will create positive and negative externalities that relate to productivity, diet, health and the environment.
August 4, 2014
The Spillover from Refrigerators in China

The spread of refrigeration in China has positive and negative externalities that relate to household diets, greenhouse gases and transport and home waste.

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August 3, 2014
Everyday Economics — Oil stories
August 3, 2014
Hamburger Economics

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