When “pay what you want” is used to determine restaurant prices, it creates incentives for consumers on the demand side that typically eliminates profit.
Food Issues: Why Economists Say Kale is Like Fried Calamari
Cited when discussing innovative entrepreneurs who invent new ideas, Joseph Schumpeter’s creative destruction applies to food trends that come and go.
How to Find Your Match
Creating more efficient markets, matching algorithms facilitate supply and demand when transactions do not involve money.
Chips and Cheese Insight
For complementary goods and services like cheese and chips, peanut butter and jelly or weddings and bridal gowns, their demand rises and falls together.
More on Raisin Freedom
Basing their decision on the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, the Supreme Court said the USDA raisin reserve could not longer seize farmers’ raisins.
A New Way to Calculate Drug Prices
Rather than the market system, several doctor suggest that cancer drugs can be priced using variables based on value that include toxicity and efficacy.
Weekly Roundup: From Greek Games to Tennis Matches
Our everyday economics includes externalities, branding, monopolistic competition, sovereign debt, game theory, elasticity, taxes, markets and the glass ceiling.