Managerial Econ
Economic Analysis of Business Practice
Friday, October 9, 2026
War Provides Arbitrage Opportunities
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Arbitrageurs profit by buying where prices are low and selling where prices are high. But what happens when transporting the product is dang...
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Yodeling
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One reason demand curves slope downward is that people tend to tire of repetition. This is what Mark Twain discovered hiking in Swiss Alps T...
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Why Buyers Hate Auctions
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When Salad and Go filed for bankruptcy in August, it already had a buyer. Dutch Bros had agreed to pay $105 million for as many as 65 of th...
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Does Surgery Work?
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The Economist : Many surgical interventions are little better than placebo The results are upending the field. Removing an inflamed appen...
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WWA (World Weather Attribution) cashing in using flawed methodology
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From The Free Press : On August 26, a wall of rock and ice broke away from Langtang Lirung in the Himalayas, resulting in a massive flo...
How to Sell Meta Glasses (and Car Stereos)
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Best Buy is moving in two seemingly opposite directions with in-store product demonstrations. In June, it announced that Meta Labs will open...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
When Winning Is a Budget Risk: Hedging Coaching Bonuses
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Prediction-market trades have turned up whose payouts nearly match college football coaches' playoff bonuses. Five line up almost exactl...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Rewarding Judgement in AI Use
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AI is changing which employee skills create value and how to incentivize these skills. EY recently announced a $100 million employee rewards...
Sunday, September 13, 2026
When driving is (almost) free
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While I am pet-sitting for my sister in California, she is letting me use her beach-community house and electric car. It has been nice drivi...
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Save Early Kids
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One of the most valuable decisions in retirement saving is when to start. Over the 50 years from 1976 through 2025, the S&P 500 delivere...
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