Category: Economics

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/01/unveiling-the-price-of-obscenity.html Does legitimating sinful activities have a cost? This paper examines the relationship between housing demand and overt prostitution in Amsterdam. In our empirical design, we exploit the spatial discontinuity…

When someone shares too-private information on Instagram in the search for likes. When someone does any kind of dance on TikTok. When someone excitedly joins a multi-level marketing scheme. When…

https://qr.ae/prpS1n 1) On my first adult trip to the U.S. I was in Orlando, Florida and the correct tip at the time was 10%. The waitress went ballistic at me,…

http://www.thevalue101.com/article.php?id=73604 有人說：一個人如何花錢，決定了一個人的人生。 也就是說，從一個人花錢上面，就能看出一個人的一生是什麼樣的。

https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-chinese-quality-disease/ This is a very strange thing. In decades of exposure to Chinese people and in nearly 20 years of living in China, I still cannot understand this nor have…

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/04/france-analysis-of-the-day.html Macron had promised to reduce state spending — then a record at more than 56 per cent of gross domestic product — by about 5 percentage points. Instead, under…

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/03/17/all-that-glitters-is-not-necessarily-russian-gold/ The “rules-based international order” – as in “our way or the highway” – is unraveling much faster than anyone could have predicted. The Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) and China…

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/01/buy-things-not-experiences.html A nice, well-reasoned piece from Harold Lee pushing back on the idea that we should buy experiences not goods:

Here it is, one of the better written pieces of this (or last) year. It is mostly about China, manufacturing, and economic policy, but here is the part I will…