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June 26, 2023
traffic signal
June 26, 2023
A New Kind of Traffic Signal

Including Nantucket and the Netherlands, the places that replaced traffic signals with "shared space" had surprising results.

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June 1, 2023
beef prices
June 1, 2023
Why Saudi Arabia Grows Alfalfa in Arizona

A partnership that affects the Arizona water supply, Saudi Arabia and Arizona shareshared desert farming ytechniques.

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May 16, 2023
power of the market
May 16, 2023
New Nudges From the Invisible Hand

Moving from the bottom up, the power of the market gives countless nudges to consumers and businesses that shape their berjavior.

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May 15, 2023
Amazon's air fleet
May 15, 2023
Why We Expect Faster Deliveries

Mostly because of Amazon, the demand and supply sides of markets encourage us to expect increasingly faster deliveries.

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April 3, 2023
happiness and global income
April 3, 2023
We Finally Know If Money Makes Us Happy

Looking at money and happiness, studies have disagreed whether increasing income makes us happier...until now.

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February 5, 2023
Weekly Economic News Roundup and China's birthrate
February 5, 2023
What We Expect From Online Dating

The closer we look at online dating markets, the more we see differences in the firms, the users, and the attitudes.

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December 6, 2022
stock market activity and World Cup
December 6, 2022
What an Economist Might Say to a Goalkeeper

Having entered the knockouts, World Cup rules mandate a penalty shootout that economists can explain with game theory.

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November 6, 2022
lottery winners and losers
November 6, 2022
What Lottery Winners and Losers Need to Know

Futher confirming that economics is everyday life, behavioral economists have explained why we buy tickets when we won't be lottery winners.

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November 3, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and cornhole corruption
November 3, 2022
The Cornhole BagGate Scandal

At this year's American Cornhole World Championship, the cheating accusations could have the same impact as economic corruption claims.

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October 26, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and recorded music formats vinyl
October 26, 2022
Vinyl Records, Creative Destruction, and the GDP

About much more than music, the past history of vinyl records is about creative destruction while the present relates to a GDP headache.

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October 17, 2022
farm festival prices
October 17, 2022
All We Need To Know About Pumpkin Slingshots and Fall Farm Festivals

The incentives created by fall farm festival prices shape the money that families spend when they visit a farm on a beautiful autumn day.

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October 9, 2022
S&P 500 bull markets
October 9, 2022
How We Should (Not) Respond to Stock Market Losses

As we experience the pain of stock market losses, making it even worse, behavioral economists tell us we will sell at the wrong time.

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