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Price and the “Law of Unintended Consequences”

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Economics is as much a communicable disease as it is a discipline. Economics is a way of thinking about everything and coming to a sense of understanding life better. When you catch it, the way of thinking (by way of learning a few basic but powerful economic principles), it is hard not to see most of life’s large and small events as economic puzzles worthy of reflection and solution.

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(2008). Price and the “Law of Unintended Consequences”. In: Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77001-7_1

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