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.

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.

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.

Venezuela’s Biggest Economic Problem

The perverse incentives created by Venezuelan price controls result in shortages, underutilized resources, wasted time, soaring inflation and hoarding.

Weekly Roundup: From Lemons to Longevity

This week’s stories on everyday economics include baby boomer dependency ratios, disposable income, human capital, the price system, the money supply and the iPhone 6 supply chain.

What Do iPhones and Pencils Have in Common?

Whether looking at the supply chain for a pencil or an iPhone 6, we see globalization because price system incentives create cooperation.

Weekly Roundup: From Wimbledon to Estonia

Our weekly roundup includes stories from everyday economics that relate to the market, the minimum wage, the price system and productivity & human capital.

Using Prediction Markets to Catch Match-Fixing at Wimbledon

When supply and demand in tennis match prediction markets created illogical prices, researchers said that 3 matches at Wimbledon might have been fixed.

Our Weekly Roundup: From Tipping to Startup Airlines

Our weekly roundup includes everyday economics that relate to entitlements, the market, competitive market structures, regulation and labor.

The Message From NFL Ticket Prices

Through the price system, because many consumers and businesses make buying and selling decisions for the same good or service, price conveys information.