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The One Way That Apple and Pizza Hut Are Alike

November 29, 2019

Our Weekly Economic News Roundup: From Owning Colors to Designing Pizza Boxes

November 30, 2019

Published by Elaine Schwartz at November 29, 2019

Friday’s e-links (11/29)

I just discovered a new podcast series. Called Cautionary Tales, it is from the always interesting Tim Harford. The one episode I listened to connected the wrong movie temporarily getting the Academy Award for best picture, a nuclear disaster, and Galileo. Explained as a series about mistakes, it is so much more.

Friday’s e-links (11/22)

Definitely low on the literary ladder, the book I listened to this week was a great break from my economics research. At the beginning of the book, killing the occupants, an elevator falls from the top floor of a skyscraper. The next day, and then after that, elevator catastrophes kill people. Hundreds of pages later, after getting to know the mayor of NYC, his son, a newspaper reporter, and two cops, we find out who is the elevator murderer. The book is called Elevator Pitch and I highly recommend it.

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Friday’s e-links (11/15)

One podcast especially stuck this week. Reset looked at a scam that Airbnb has only begun to deal with. While the podcast specifically targeted a group with multiple listings, it more broadly was about the downside of quality checks from large corporations ranging from Amazon to Airbnb.

Friday’s e-links (11/08)

After listening to the Econtalk podcast on More From Less, I bought the book. Perfect for history and economics, the podcast and the book do a good job of explaining why we’ve needed fewer resources to grow our economy.

Friday’s e-links (11/01)

This week, my favorite podcast was the 99% Invisible history of the backpass rule. About speeding up a game for the fans, its impact on football (aka soccer) players was somewhat unexpected.

The podcast echoed our econlife posts on shortening game time in basketball, baseball, and tennis.

Elaine Schwartz

I am Elaine Schwartz, an economics writer, teacher, and the founder of econlife®. In so many places and ways, I have tried to make economics interesting and accessible so we could be personally, professionally, and politically knowledgeable.

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November 2019 Friday’s e-links: From Cautionary Tales to Elevators and the Backpass Rule

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