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I hate to rain on your parade, but how many things can this article get wrong? How much does it cost to pack a picnic this Fourth of July? That’ll be $6 per person. That’s according to the American Farm Bureau Federation, which launched an informal price survey this year looking at the cost of hot…
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There may be an economic cure for the nation’s obesity: Hike the price of food. Raising the price of a calorie for home consumption by 10 percent might lower the percentage of body fat in youths about 8 or 9 percent, according to new research from the National Bureau of Economic Research. via www.washingtonpost.com On March…
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Ingmar Schumacher: Today, at my favorite environmental economics blog (oh yes it is…), I saw a picture of a robin’s nest. My guess is that the proud photographer didn’t really put the picture there because it is his best wildlife shot ever (sorry, John…), but because he genuinely cares about those birds that are hatching…
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With reference to Colorado proposing a 30% tax on recreational marijuana sales (15% excise tax and 15% sales tax), Jeffrey Miron, an economics professor at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian group … said that as long as federal marijuana laws continued to be unsettled, collecting taxes would be…
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My favorite archeologists have determined that: We needed beer. Luckily, from time to time, our ancestors, like other animals, would run across fermented fruit or grain and sample it. How this accidental discovery evolved into the first keg party, of course, is still unknown. But evolve it did, perhaps as early as 10,000 years ago.…
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OK,it's Thursday, and this is about vodka, but being from Bawlmer (Baltimore) I couldn't pass this one up: On Monday – which was Maryland Day, for those of you not from the Old Line State – Philadelphia Distillers officially launched its new vodka, the Bay, which is flavored with “traditional Chesapeake seasoning,” an apparent relative…
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Freakonomics: Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast is called “Would You Let a Coin Toss Decide Your Future?” … In it, Stephen Dubner grills Steve Levitt about a new project called Freakonomics Experiments. (Levitt blogged about it here and stopped by Marketplace last week.) The basic idea is to learn more about how people make decisions,…
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Stephen Dubner: Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Introducing ‘Freakonomics Experiments.’” … In it, Steve Levitt tells Kai Ryssdal about a new website we’ve just launched that will help you make tough decisions in life while also taking part in academic research. And there’s Freakonomics swag to be had, too. via www.freakonomics.com I've signed…
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From the inbox: Dear Dr. Morgan, Your article A Split-Sample Revealed and Stated Preference Demand Model to Examine Homogenous Subgroup Consumer Behavior Responses to Information and Food Safety Technology Treatments has just been published and is available as 'Online First' on SpringerLink: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10640-012-9608-9 Here is the cover page:
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From the National Journal: Some observations that go against my own preconceptions: Bud leans left but Sam Adams leans right? I would've thought Bud was preferred by the conservative NASCAR crowd while Sam Adams was preferred by them liberal Yankees Corona left, but Corona Light right? Heineken left but Amstel Light right? Miller Genuine Draft…
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