EULA Wars: The Customer Is Always Right … to Lodge a Protest
…minds think alike. A few years ago, Barry Nalebuff and I created the “LiabiliT,” which attempts to do the same thing with regard to those annoying signs in parking lots…
Why are these 300-year-old instruments still coveted by violinists today? And how do working musicians get their hands on multimillion-dollar antiques? Zachary Crockett is not fiddling around….
In this episode from 2013, we look at whether spite pays — and if it even exists….
The quirky little grocery chain with California roots and German ownership has a lot to teach all of us about choice architecture, efficiency, frugality, collaboration, and team spirit….
…minds think alike. A few years ago, Barry Nalebuff and I created the “LiabiliT,” which attempts to do the same thing with regard to those annoying signs in parking lots…
From reader Paul O’Keef: Architectural Record reports that India’s richest man is building a sixty-story house for his family, including six floors for parking, a health club and a rooftop…
They’ve long been associated with crime and blight. Now, the investors are moving in. Zachary Crockett follows the trail.
…some wag had taken the phrase “A man can plan,” and anagrammed it into “Panama Canal.” I look again at Dad, striding through the frigid parking lot, balaclava on his…
Is it really in a restaurant’s best interest to give customers free bread or chips before they even order?
The modern world overwhelms us with sounds we didn’t ask for, like car alarms and cell-phone “halfalogues.” What does all this noise cost us in terms of productivity, health, and…
…for it. His wife hasn’t abandoned her car; she’s living in it, in a hotel parking lot. It’s the dark side of Dubai, though at least one Dubai-based blogger thinks…
A Chicago company called Remote Sensing Metrics LLC has been using satellite images to track the number of cars in Wal-Mart parking lots, as a means of helping forecast earnings…
Thick markets, thin markets, and the triumph of attributes over compatibility.
…mile. It struck me though how much this flat reimbursement subsidizes our driving choices somewhat similarly to the free parking hypotheses. It’s interesting that while at the same time the…
…an even higher percentage than construction workers. So why is that? According to the article, the government workers have a very simple and powerful incentive: “because they have free parking.”…
…isn’t alone. This Washington Post article suggests that the practice is common place.? In some cities, parking with a placard not only gives you access to handicap spots, but also…
…of a ticket. Again trying to explain this as best I can, without a lawyer to translate what they originally told us. The feedback we have received via e-mails or…
Are you more likely to experience post-traumatic stress or post-traumatic growth? How does belief in the afterlife affect how you view death? And why did Angela hike a deadly gorge…
…of gas-station workers? Hardly. The occasion was nothing more dramatic than a Red Sox home game. The station’s real estate is apparently more valuable for parking than for selling gas:…
…the most efficient strategy to snag the best parking spot at the mall? How can you make it statistically more likely that you’ll get some action tonight? SCI FI is…
The controversial Harvard economist, recently back from a suspension, “broke a lot of glass early in my career,” he says. His research on school incentives and police brutality won him…
…looking for patterns of communication or keywords that might indicate a conversation between terrorists. Many airports collect the license plates of every car in their parking lots, and can use…
Israel’s folding car can park in a motorcycle parking spot. (HT: Yehuda Simon) The economics of online dating: an economist explains the marketplace of online love. The perverse incentives of…
…lot (though probably not all) of the cross-national differences in vehicle miles traveled may indeed be attributable to government policies, including restrictions on parking, high gas taxes, stiffer registration fees,…
In his final years, Richard Feynman’s curiosity took him to some surprising places. We hear from his companions on the trips he took — and one he wasn’t able to….
In the Freakonomics Radio Network’s newest show, dog-cognition expert and bestselling author Alexandra Horowitz (Inside of a Dog) takes us on a walk into the scruffy, curious, joyful world of…
…deter local youths from late-night loitering and noise-making. Essentially, a combination of Barry Manilow’s greatest hits and classical music were blasted from a local parking lot that was typically overrun…
We are in the midst of a historic (and wholly unpredicted) rise in urbanization. But it’s hard to retrofit old cities for the 21st century. Enter Dan Doctoroff. The man…
…parking lot.) It was like reading about the origins of all the superheroes. I was a fanboy and my heroes were the other executives. I wanted to be one of…
