More than we recognize, restaurant psychology creates incentives that determine our spending, our timing, and what we eat.
When One Item Has More Than One Price
Expanding the reach of its variable prices, JetBlue recently added dynamic baggage fees to its airline fares.
Where To Find the Most EVs
Comparing the new electric vehicle purchases globally, we can see the contrasting role of incentives in Norway and the U.S.
Why a Bigger Baggage Bin Is Like a New Highway
Whether looking at airlines’ overhead baggage bins or highway construction, we see supply created incentives boosting demand.
How to Board a Plane Quickly
Although airlines say that speedy boarding is a priority, their incentives prevent them from ever achieving it.
Are Checks Like Dinosaurs?
Moving away from cash and checks, for many of us, our money transactions have changed during the past 25 years.
Why Millions of People Decided to See a Movie a Day (at the theater)
Trying to encourage us to return to movie theaters, the movie packages that matter have had disastrous results.
Why the Inflation Reduction Act Needs a New Name
Looking at its spending, its goals, and its focus, we could say that the Inflation Reduction Act needs a new name.
Why Dinner Guests Say Thank You With Wine, Not Cash
Called repugnant transactions, there are some behaviors in which we should not engage that can involve money or moral outrage.