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.
December 18, 2019
The massive volume of online clothing returns.takes us to the value of standardized dress sizes and the transactions costs of free shipping.
December 15, 2019
Shown by Nigeria's chicken shortage, a country's oil wealth can become a resource curse when it prevents an economy from diversifying.
December 10, 2019
Nike's Amazon problem related to the difficulty that most big brands would have with losing power at the Everything Store.
December 9, 2019
December 3, 2019
When global warming causes fish migration, the impact involves much more than species survival, nutrition, and ocean temperatures.
November 27, 2019
Lower turkey prices just before Thanksgiving are an economic mystery because a spike in demand is supposed to make products more expensive.
November 26, 2019
More than shopping nudges, e-commerce dark patterns are the deceptive and misleading tricks that pressure us into a purchase.
November 25, 2019
November 21, 2019
When an Australian business school scored the pension income systems in 37 countries, they gave many more C grades than anyone would like to receive.
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.
November 14, 2019
Looking at 40 million trips, researchers concluded that Uber's tips can be surprising because of the rider characteristics that determine how much.