Sex, Drugs and Economics

Authentic, hand-crafted artisanal blog posts on economics and other stuff. Warning: May contain traces of nuts.

Sunday, 19 October 2014

Pricing strategy in practice: Cocktail menu edition

One of my favourite topics to teach in ECON100 is pricing strategy. In part, it's because this topic is a bit less about microeconomic t...

Thursday, 16 October 2014

The living wage is good for employers; unless lots of employers pay a living wage

The living wage is back in the news this week, with The Warehouse Group being held up as an example for other (especially retail) employers ...

Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Try this: The economics of "The Office"

Dirk Mateer and friends (Daniel Kuester at Kansas State University and Christopher Youderian at Pareto Software; Dirk is now at the Universi...

Thursday, 9 October 2014

University rankings and signalling

On Tuesday I wrote a post on market-based pricing and the impact on university rankings . But, to what extent do university rankings matter ...

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