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The American Amusement Park's Wild Ride
From the trolley parks of the early 20th century to the theme parks of today, these spaces of shared pleasure have been both a reflection of urban life, and an escape from it.
America’s favorite family outings are increasingly out of reach
Taking the kids to a baseball game, a movie, or Disneyland is a bigger financial commitment than it used to be for middle-class families.
West Virginia-Pitt’s renewed Backyard Brawl a reminder of toll realignment
"For your fans, what’s important to them?” said West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons of scheduling rivals after realignment.
24 charts that show we’re (mostly) living better than our parents
Ignore the haters: living standards have improved a lot since the 1980s.
Why Thieves Steal Soap - Priceonomics
Stealing soap is almost as good as stealing cash.
The Dollar-Store Economy (Published 2011)
The ubiquitous dollar store is the American dream writ small.
The Return of Industrial Warfare | Royal United Services Institute
Can the West still provide the arsenal of democracy?
We are not in a recession, nor is one inevitable.
Americans are rightly angry about inflation. A strong labor market is not enough reason to celebrate. But, we are coming out of, not going into the hurricane.
‘Just stop buying lattes’: The origins of a millennial housing myth
Financial gurus want young home shoppers to stop complaining and cut back on small luxuries. But there are broader affordability issues at play.
S&P 500 Sector Quilt
Why it's so difficult to pick the best sectors to invest in.
AWS for Industry, But Better: The Railroad Investment Case
Plus! Smart Margin; Peak College?; Two-Sided Markets; Bonds; Diff Jobs
Timing a Recession vs. Timing the Stock Market
It's not always easy to predict the timing of a recession and what that means for the stock market.
U.S. Inflation in May: More Mixed News
Some charts on what's good and what's bad.
What Trait Affects Income the Most? – Economics from the Top Down
Ever wondered what trait most affects your income? Turns out it’s your rank in a hierarchy.
Quadratic Voting
We are a community of activists, artists, entrepreneurs, and scholars committed to using mechanism design to inspire radical social change.
The Cult of Adam Tooze
How the impeccably credentialed, improbably charming economic historian supplanted the dirtbag left.
The Boom-Bust Cycle in Commodities
The commodities are so cyclical.
The LA Rams are winners in football. They’re ‘loss leaders’ in economics
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Consuming Contests: The Effect of Outcome Uncertainty on Spectator Attendance in the Australian Football League
Contests that non-contestants consume for entertainment are a fixture of economic, cultural and political life. We exploit injury-induced changes to teams’ line
The Importance of Price Signals
Originally published: December 2021 When price inflation occurs, it can be a very challenging time for everyone. In that type of environment, prices of goods and services often go up faster than wages, and the public and policymakers wish to constrain them. Historically, when…
The Behavioral Economics of Price-Setting
Prospect theory proposes that when making decisions people use a reference point to frame prospective alternative outcomes as either potential gains or losses; when considering prospective gains, they are risk-averse and prefer certainty, but when considering prospective losses…
Oil System Collapsing so Fast it May Derail Renewables, Warn French Governm
Forget ‘peak oil’. Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the oil and gas industries are cannibalising themselves as the costs of fossil fuel extraction mount
Rural America is Gearing Up For a Generation of Change - Austin Vernon's Blog
Let’s Build a Chip – With Math
Let’s Build a Chip – We lay out the costs of building a chip – with spreadsheets!
The miracle of the commons
Far from being profoundly destructive, we humans have deep capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight
The surprising problem with ranked-choice voting
By every measure I can think of, ranked-choice voting is a superior way to hold a modern election. When a group of people want to decide something at the national or even the organizational level, …
Quadratic Payments: A Primer
A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
Some lawmakers in Colorado tried so-called quadratic voting—and it worked.
Guns, Germs and Steel | Documentary - The Big Picture
A PBS documentary concerning the disparity between those who have advanced technology and those who still live primitively.
Winner Takes it All: How Markets Favor the Few at the Expense of the Many
Markets tend to favor unequal distributions of market share and profits, with a few leaders emerging in any industry.Winner-take-all markets are hard to disrupt and suppress the entry of new players by locking in market share for leading players.
Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up? - Freakonomics Freakonom
Can Basic Income Plus The Blockchain Build A New Economic System?
To stop society's unsustainable demand for ever-more resources, we need to decentralize and localize our economy. Combining the new ledger technology with UBI may be the way to make that happen.
Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics — MatthewBall.co
Due to UK disclosure requirements, it's possible to examine the P&L of the privately owned/controlled OnlyFans. And the results are shocking.
$2 H100s: How the GPU Bubble Burst - by Eugene Cheah
H100s used to be $8/hr if you could get them. Now there's 7 different places sometimes selling them under $2. What happened?
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game
When there is an opportunity to gain a positive reputation, individuals are more willing to sacrifice their immediate self-interest. Partner choice creates opportunities for competitive altruism, i.e. individuals compete to be regarded as more generous ...