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Demand, Supply, and Markets
The Reasons That Airlines Boost Fees Rather than Fares
When the rising price of fuel boosts airlines’ costs, they can buoy their bottom line by increasing optional and barely noticeable fees or raising fares.
Why Wedding Tickets Should (or Should Not) Be For Sale
By identifying the moral limits of markets, we can decide what should and should not be sold…like wedding tickets and high grades.
How To Preserve Our Nutella Supply
Hoping to expand the Nutella supply chain with new producers of hazelnuts in Canada and even New Jersey, Ferrero is supporting hybrid seed research.
Why Urban Farmers Plant Their Crops in Garages
Using old containers from cargo ships, commercial urban farmers are growing hydroponic mini-lettuces and even strawberries in warehouses and garages.
Why We Suffer From FOMO
With social media telling us everything our friends are doing and much more, many of us experience FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out).
Why an Economist Can Solve a Poop Problem
Sometimes you need an economist who figures out how to improve Senegal’s sanitation by getting more people to use toilet suckers.
Where Retaliatory Tariffs Create Unintended Consequences
It will be rather complicated when retaliatory agricultural tariffs, aluminum protection, and crop payment supports all hit New Madrid County, Missouri.
Why We Need Speedy Connections
Looking back at the impact of the telegraph on cotton markets, you can see why a speedy internet affects supply and demand.
Awakening the Mattress Industry
Disrupting traditionally sleepy mattress markets, now we can buy beds-in-a-box online and visit countless mattress stores at local malls.