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Just For Fun: I Simply Cannot Resist Economics And Puppies…

July 31st, 2010 · No Comments
Just For Fun

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 [...]

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Just For Fun: Incentives, For The Grad Students Out There…

July 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Incentives · Just For Fun

From Piled Higher & Deeper:

A not-unrelated question: Would you rather promote your best employee or your worst?

   

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Just For Fun: I’m Pretty Sure This Is Not How Competitive Markets Work…

July 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
Econ 101 · Just For Fun · Markets

…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 [...]

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How Do You Value A Life? Economists Are Happy To Show You…

July 1st, 2010 · 22 Comments
Decision Making · Fun With Math · Just For Fun

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 [...]

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Just For Fun: What Do Merle Hazard And The B-52s Have In Common?

June 23rd, 2010 · 7 Comments
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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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