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You may recall that time when I taught Gizmo some economics for Cinco de Mayo. Greg Mankiw certainly does. Here’s a visual reminder:
Apparently the idea of canine economic education is catching on. For example, reader John posted the following on my Facebook page:
No, Fido, no it’s not. I wanted to insert [...]
Tags: Just For Fun
From Piled Higher & Deeper:
A not-unrelated question: Would you rather promote your best employee or your worst?
Tags: Incentives · Just For Fun
…and I’m kind of an expert, so I should know.
So one of the features of a competitive market is that companies can freely enter the market and compete with existing companies. This feature means that if one company is pricing an item higher than it needs to in order to stay in business and [...]
Tags: Econ 101 · Just For Fun · Markets
My friend Marty is convinced that he can’t possibly be the only person who follows both my site and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. I’m not sure I agree, but I’m thankful that he is nice enough to send along relevant links anyway.
From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:
I can’t tell whether the creators of this realized [...]
Tags: Decision Making · Fun With Math · Just For Fun
Merle Hazard* recently informed me that he had a new song about money entitled “Legal Tender,” so I figured I would share it with you here. I figured I would also share my inner monologue as I watched the song video…
* If you don’t get the reference, see here and here.
econgirl’s brain: Aw, [...]
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