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September 26, 2015
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September 26, 2015
Weekly Roundup: From Chicken Sandwiches to Budget Gridlock

Our economic news summary includes chicken sandwiches, reefers and the supply chain, the internet and the information infrastructure and the federal budget.

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September 25, 2015
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The Most Expensive Way to Make a Chicken Sandwich

In a chicken sandwich are ingredients from around the world that one person can create but the price system gathered them for us at the local supermarket.

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August 20, 2015
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The Restaurant That Lets You Pay What You Want

When "pay what you want" is used to determine restaurant prices, it creates incentives for consumers on the demand side that typically eliminates profit.

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August 15, 2015
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August 15, 2015
Weekly Roundup: From Skyscraper Shadows to Trendy Foods

This week's everyday economics includes property rights, trade, creative destruction, entitlements, tradeoffs, conservation, externalities, price, and markets.

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August 14, 2015
Everyday economics and Why We Need Trophy Hunting
August 14, 2015
Why We Need Trophy Hunting

Expensive trophy hunting packages demonstrate how the price system gives a value to animals that helps to preserve them.

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July 25, 2015
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July 25, 2015
Weekly Roundup: Matchmaking Mysteries to Garbage Privacy

Our everyday economics includes productivity, markets, prices, externalities, social norms, distribution, scarcity, environment, regulation, monetary union.

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July 21, 2015
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July 21, 2015
Airline Pricing Mysteries

Left to fluctuate freely, a price can tell us information about social norms, efficiency, technology, incentives, quality and supply and demand.

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June 2, 2015
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June 2, 2015
What We Can Learn from Venezuelan Inflation

Shortages, long lines, and panic buying are several ways that hyperinflation is creating chaos for local and foreign firms and consumers in Venezuela.

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February 28, 2015
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February 28, 2015
Weekly Roundup: From Good Voices to Bad Marriages

Our everyday economics includes GDP, human capital, price system, public goods, taxes, gender pay gap, externalities, subsidies, marriage economics and ROI.

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February 27, 2015
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February 27, 2015
How To Price a Nobel Prize

Shown by auctions of Nobel prize medals from recipients like Simon Kuznets and James Watson, through markets, the price system conveys information.

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January 10, 2015
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January 10, 2015
Weekly Roundup: From Drinking Behavior to Dating Decisions

This week's everyday economics involved 6 economists and such ideas as product differentiation, behavioral economics, marginal utility, price and trade.

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January 6, 2015
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January 6, 2015
What Happens When People Pollinate Better Than Bees?

Pricing ecosystems and the market's practical and ethical dilemmas take us to Malthusian economics and the difficulty of finding a valid conservation tool.

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