Topic: Joel Waldfogel
We need your help for an upcoming Freakonomics Radio segment. In order to avoid future deadweight loss, we're proposing a new Freakonomics Personal Gift Registry. ___________________ What [GIVER X] would probably give me otherwise: * Thanks to the economist Joel Waldfogel, the ...
Christmas and economists go together like - well, like drinking and walking. Alex Tabarrok, writing at Marginal Revolution about what he wanted for Christmas, put it this way: "The economist in me says the best gift is cash. The rest of me rebels. ...
Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays (Princeton University Press/ 2009) is a book intended to delight all those tired of Christmas crowds, shopping and debts, or who refuse to believe that their American duty is to buy and boost ...
Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays (Princeton University Press/ 2009) is a book intended to delight all those tired of Christmas crowds, shopping and debts, or who refuse to believe that their American duty is to buy and boost ...
OH, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE. AND HERE'S WHY Wharton School economist Joel Waldfogel has built something of a reputation as a Christmas killjoy. Starting with a 1993 article in the American Economic Review ("The Deadweight Loss of Christmas"), he has been ...
Twenty-eight years later, the issue drew national attention when former FCC Chairman Michael Powell introduced a plan to overturn the ban. Now, current FCC chairman Kevin Martin is attempting yet again to repeal the ban before the end of this year, with ...
Joel Waldfogel, a professor of business and public policy at Wharton, believes that the distinction doesn't hold. Waldfogel's research shows many situations in which larger groups get more satisfaction from markets. Hollywood, for instance, has begun catering to customers in ...
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Book TV: Joel Waldfogel, "Scroogenomics: Why ...
Joel Waldfogel argues that Americans end up wasting billions of ...2009-12-17 -
An Interview with Joel Waldfogel
Author of Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for ...2009-10-01 -
Professor Joel Waldfogel - Scroogenomics
Professor Joel Waldfogel explains why you shouldn't buy presents ...2010-03-10
