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3 days ago by By Freakonomics

You can read Malcolm Gladwell's review Chris Anderson's Free: the Future of a Radical Price online for free--except of course for the price you paid for your computer, mobile device, electricity and internet connection. This hitch is just one problem Gladwell has with Anderson's idea...

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25 days ago by Gary M C Shiu

政府什么也不要管吗？不是的，政府还要做的项目多得很。我要重复此前说过的：医疗行业的一个大麻烦，是求医的人往往不知道购买的是些什么。鱼目大可混珠，浪得虚名之辈历来不少。在权利与责任界定这重要话题上，政府的工作重要。但他们要懂得分辨哪些工作他们要做，哪些应由市场处理。原则上，这分辨不难，只是做起来，政府的官员会因为自己的权力与利益，漠视了社会整体的需要。因为这一点，我对中国医疗改革的前途不看好。 鱼目既然容易混珠，混水摸鱼的行为容易产生。 This is from Professor Steven N S Cheung's latest column, more here. Several imp ...

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30 days ago by By Stephen J. Dubner

I've been eating a lot of kiwis lately. At the corner deli near my home, I can buy three for $1. They are delicious. Unless the stickers are lying, they come from New Zealand. At 33 cents apiece, a New Zealand kiwi costs less than the price of mailing a letter to the East Side. (And believe me, I co ...

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38 days ago by Gary M C Shiu

Gary Becker wrote: the negative health consequences of being overweight and even obese will generally be significantly lower for children than for adults. The reason is that aside from very extreme obesity, the really harmful effects to overweight children will not usually kick in for another 25 or ...

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53 days ago by Jason Welker

FT.com / MARKETS / Commodities - Shortages stir coffee and sugar prices My favorite economics blog, Environmental Economics, points to an article from the Financial times that appears to make a very elementary mistake in its use of basic economics terminology. Read the excerpt and answer the questio ...

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79 days ago by By Daniel Hamermesh

Our telecom bill is huge; for cable (no premium channels), cable modem, landline, and my iPhone, it's about $250. I've tried to get AT&T to give me a deal on the landline and iPhone, but to no avail. The cable company, however, will take over my landline at a total price for everything but [...]

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94 days ago by By Steven D. Levitt

If Josh Freese's music exhibits as much creativity as his marketing, he should have a hit record on his hands. Freese, who was part of Devo in a previous life, has just released a new album. While $10,000 might sound like a lot to pay for a copy of the CD, at that price he will [...]

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103 days ago by By Daniel Hamermesh

he Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas boasts the Moorea Club, which it advertises as offering a European-style beach, with entry limited to ages 21 and over. It does not advertise that the price of day use is $50 for male customers and $10 for female customers. While examples of price discrimination are ubiq ...

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103 days ago by By Daniel Hamermesh

he Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas boasts the Moorea Club, which it advertises as offering a European-style beach, with entry limited to ages 21 and over. It does not advertise that the price of day use is $50 for male customers and $10 for female customers. While examples of price discrimination are ubiq ...

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108 days ago by alaskakid

We choose David A. Hirshleifer as our Economist of the Day. David is the Merage Chair in Business Growth and Professor of Finance at the University of California, Irvine. David Hirschleifer Contact Information Tel: 949-824-9955 david.h@uci.edu Assistant: Martha Matlock, 949-824-5122 Short Biography ...

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