Kruxdelux

This is an exciting one for me because the Economics of Suicide might resolve two philosophical schools of thought. I will first present...

Political participation, social movements, and protests are puzzling for economists. It seems that costs are higher than benefits to the...

In my Sociology study I came across an intriguing paper called “How Community Institutions Create Economic Advantage: Jewish Diamond...

Global Care Chains (GCCs) and feminist causes are at odds with each other. The GCC is a system and network of households around the world...

Nigerian Scams, also known as 419 scams or advanced payment scams, originated as Spanish prisoner scams. Originally Spanish prisoners...

Capital Punishment and the Death Penalty (the former stands for the execution of the latter) is a heated and emotional topic, perfect...

Price discrimination is charging people different prices for the same good. In Micro literature, there are three types of price...

I want to argue that price is a great way to aggregate information. This can be shown in classical stock and commodities markets. Prices...

It is 1974, and the world of academic philosophy is shattered. The oddly titled paper “What is it like to be a bat?” published in The...

Discrimination is a puzzle for economists. The very definition of discrimination is that it separates groups unjustly. In the labor...

Part 1 of this blog series focused on the measurement of beauty in surveys. Having that variable up and running now allows us to get to...

This is the first of 3 posts on the Economics of Beauty. Post 2 and 3 will focus on “Beauty and the Labour Market” and “Beauty and the...

In sports betting there is a well-documented anomaly called the Favorite Longshot Bias (FLB). In the majority of betting markets, the...

Topics discussed in this blog like extrinsic factors, signalling, and social capital naturally lead to the topic of consultancies. I am...

Economics is a unique tool-set for deciphering the causes of human behavior. It assumes that people are rational, incentive-driven, and...

The economics of climate change is an investment analysis problem. Investment analysis is a branch of economics that calculates the...

No, it's not what you think: People don’t tell me I should go see a therapist all the time, and I refuse. It's more a conceptual problem...

I want to argue that people consume art not because of the intrinsic properties of art, but because they can define themselves through...

My friend Juaschimir asked what the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is. I am glad you asked. Micro focuses on the...

What would happen when people can have more than one married spouse? 1. Polygyny: First of all, there would be more polygyny (man having...