When animal welfare requires cage-free eggs and antibiotic elimination and no gestation crates, some fast food restaurants cannot accept the tradeoffs.
Movie Reviews and Fandango Inflation
Just like prices and grades, stars that overstate the value of a movie can be called inflationary so perhaps we should question Fandango’s reviews.
Weekly Roundup: From Venezuela’s French Fries to the Army’s Pizza
Posts Roundup Sunday 11.01.15 How to be inches away from getting hired…more Monday 11.02.15 Why one-child could be here to stay…more Tuesday 11.03.15 The army food we eat at home…more Wednesday 11.04.15 What a pizza can teach us…more Thursday 11.05.15 The tough part of deciding who…
How to Make the Invisible Hand Disappear
With shortages of basic necessities, price controls, lack of foreign exchange and rising prices, Venezuela’s inflation rate is soaring.
Why It’s Tough to Place the Poverty Line
Whether calculating the poverty rate in Rwanda or in the U.S., the income and/or consumption variables you select determine your results.
Lessons We Can Learn From a Pizza
Relating to the environment, prices and innovation, a pizza box illustrates that in economics the invisible can be more important than what we see.
The Reason For Pizza With a Three-Year Shelf Life
Technological innovation as a growth engine that leads to creative destruction can come from food processing discoveries from the military.
Why Your Height Matters
Similar to gender and race discrimination, height discrimination can impact political success, how much we earn, and whether we are hired.
Weekly Roundup: From the Diner’s Dilemma to Lost Labor
This week’s economic news summary includes the diner’s dilemma and marginal analysis, property rights in outer space, the Phillip’s Curve and unemployment.
