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Using Time to Choose Your Coffee Shop
In 2015, Norway’s Odd-Steinar Tøllefsen won the World Brewers Cup competition. The rules are simple. You just need to use a non-mechanical coffee brewing method and have won qualifying regional competitions. Essentially, we are talking about pouring water (by hand)…
What an Economist Would Buy at the Salad Bar
We could say that we are looking at salad bar economics when we compare the price per pound at the salad bar to the produce aisle.
The Easiest Way to Keep a New Year’s Resolution
Combining our “wants”and “shoulds” into temptation bundling, we wind up with a commitment device that helps us keep our New Year’s resolutions.
Top Ten Ways To Sound Like An Economist
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to sound like an economist, please remember the following…and do send in your own suggestions. New Top Ten Additions: #1: Commenting on our 2% inflation, close to 3% growth, and 4% or so…
A Banana, a Billionaire, and a Tesla Tax Follow-Up
Our banana, $450 million painting, and Tesla tax stories were just so interesting that they deserved fascinating follow-ups.
Weekly Economic News Roundup: From Ethical Cars to Interrupting Women
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from new marijuana markets to deciding what bitcoin is.
Imagining a Marijuana Starbucks
With eight states having legalized recreational marijuana, new businesses are multiplying. One ad person even asked if there could be “a Starbucks equivalent in the world of weed.” So today, let’s see the possibilities. A Starbucks Equivalent Surface Magazine shared five…
Choosing the Ethics of Self-Driving Cars
Governments have begun to provide guidelines about the ethical choices that will be necessary when programming driverless cars.
The Downside of Interrupting Women
According to Supreme Court etiquette, the justices should not be interrupted by the attorneys who appear before them. Still though, the women are interrupted. The Supreme Court On average, female Supreme Court justices are interrupted three times as much as…