July 14, 2017
Rippling far beyond furniture assembly, the IKEA Effect can determine how we value what we construct and cook at home, and design at work.
July 13, 2017
July 12, 2017
Economists become somewhat similar to weather men and women when their GDP monitor is a nowcast that forecasts the present.
July 9, 2017
Making financial decisions, we might take more or less risk because of the color of the print in our documents and charts.
July 6, 2017
Seeing the impact of French baguette deregulation, we can look back at the days when government guaranteed Paris's bread supply.
July 3, 2017
Wondering why cars happily stop to let pedestrians cross the road on an island without traffic lights, we can find an answer from Adam Smith.
June 28, 2017
June 25, 2017
Thinking of postal service finances, you might picture Meyer Chuck, Alaska's 25 residents receiving a weekly mail delivery.
June 23, 2017
By changing our homes and our cream cheese purchases, taxes on bagels and windows can have unintended consequences when they distort our behavior.
June 19, 2017
When politicians plan to update our transportation infrastructure, they are influenced by a hidden hand that can be benevolent or malevolent.
June 14, 2017
Although no one tells Maine's wild blueberry growers how much to plant, blueberry markets signal when to cut back and when to plant more.
June 13, 2017
To understand the high prices supported by Hamilton ticket demand, we can look at the elasticity from four groups of theater goers.