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- 1From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedModernizing the Consumer Price Index for the 21st Century National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: 2022 Price measurement normally is off the radar of most economists, but periodically it comes into...
- 2From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis issue starts with John List's Adam Smith lecture. Drawing on his wide experience as a consultant and economist at a number of firms, List describes the real-world difficulties of implementing reforms, involving such...
- 3From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMichael Keen and Joel Slemrod: review of Rebellion, rascals, and revenues: tax follies and wisdom through the ages Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue explains the fundamental issues of taxation--vertical and horizontal...
- 4From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was the largest stimulus package in US history. In this paper, I look into whether public sentiment improved in response to the CARES Act, and...
- 5From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMark Carney: Value(s)--Building a Better World for All Public Affairs, Hatchett Book Group, 2021 Mark Carney, the former governor of both the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada, is one of this era's most respected...
- 6From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDavid Autor, David A. Mindell, and Elisabeth B. Reynolds: The Work of the Future--Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines The MIT Press, 2021 The end of work. Humans need not apply. It is undeniable to...
- 7From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Businesses, governments, and individuals have dealt with bringing ideas to scale, sometimes successfully, but all too often unsuccessfully. Scaling is at the core of my book The Voltage Effect (List, 2022) In...
- 8From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In order to improve prices at Amazon, we created Pricing Labs, a price experimentation platform. Since we do not price discriminate, we must run product-randomized experiments. We discuss how we randomize to...
- 9From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract After World War II, consumer patterns of food consumption changed dramatically. Initially, it was mobility, economic evolution, and home appliance technologies that induced a shift toward meals eaten outside...
- 10From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLaurence J. Kotlikoff: An economist's secrets to more money, less risk, and a better life Little, Brown Spark, 2022 Larry Kotlikoff's most recent book Money Magic is light, breezy, and fun to read. The book's goal is...
- 11From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPaul Oyer: An economist goes to the game: how to throw away $580 million and other surprising insights from the economics of sports Yale University Press, 2022 Paul Oyer's "An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw...
- 12From:Business Economics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract We present results of an experiment designed to reveal the "face effect" on pricing behavior in a supply chain game. In particular, we study the variation in wholesale prices driven by subjective judgments of...