Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies write by Richard B. McKenzie. This book was released on 2008-04-17. Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This entertaining book seeks to unravel an array of pricing puzzles from the one captured in the book’s title to why so many prices end with "9" (as in $2.99 or $179). Along the way, the author explains how the 9/11 terrorists have, through the effects of their heinous acts on the relative prices of various modes of travel, killed more Americans since 9/11 than they killed that fateful day. He also explains how well-meaning efforts to spur the use of alternative, supposedly environmentally friendly fuels have starved millions of people around the world and given rise to the deforestation of rainforests in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Why Does Popcorn Cost So Much at the Movies?
Why Does Popcorn Cost So Much at the Movies? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Does Popcorn Cost So Much at the Movies? write by Ricard Gil. This book was released on 2008. Why Does Popcorn Cost So Much at the Movies? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Popcorn Palaces
Popcorn Palaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popcorn Palaces write by Michael Kinerk. This book was released on 2001-05. Popcorn Palaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theatre owners in small towns and big cities alike built new showplaces in this style or renovated older buildings to catch the mood of the moment. Streamlined with flowing curves in gleaming metal, replete with geometric patterns and a wealth of frosted and mirrored glass, these "moderne" theatres were the height of fashion through the 1930s and 1940s, and they remain cherished landmarks.".
The Armchair Economist
The Armchair Economist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Armchair Economist write by Steven E. Landsburg. This book was released on 2012-05-10. The Armchair Economist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Air bags cause accidents, because well-protected drivers take more risks. This well-documented truth comes as a surprise to most people, but not to economists, who have learned to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives. In The Armchair Economist, Steven E. Landsburg shows how the laws of economics reveal themselves in everyday experience and illuminate the entire range of human behavior. Why does popcorn cost so much at the cinema? The 'obvious' answer is that the owner has a monopoly, but if that were the whole story, there would also be a monopoly price to use the toilet. When a sudden frost destroys much of the Florida orange crop and prices skyrocket, journalists point to the 'obvious' exercise of monopoly power. Economists see just the opposite: If growers had monopoly power, they'd have raised prices before the frost. Why don't concert promoters raise ticket prices even when they are sure they will sell out months in advance? Why are some goods sold at auction and others at pre-announced prices? Why do boxes at the football sell out before the standard seats do? Why are bank buildings fancier than supermarkets? Why do corporations confer huge pensions on failed executives? Why don't firms require workers to buy their jobs? Landsburg explains why the obvious answers are wrong, reveals better answers, and illuminates the fundamental laws of human behavior along the way. This is a book of surprises: a guided tour of the familiar, filtered through a decidedly unfamiliar lens. This is economics for the sheer intellectual joy of it.
The New World of Economics
The New World of Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New World of Economics write by Richard B. McKenzie. This book was released on 2012-05-16. The New World of Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New World of Economics, 6th edition, by Richard McKenzie and Gordon Tullock, represents a revival of a classic text that, when it was first published, changed substantially the way economics would be taught at the introductory and advanced levels of economics for all time. In a very real sense, many contemporary general-audience economics books that seek to apply the “economic way of thinking” to an unbounded array of social issues have grown out of the disciplinary tradition established by earlier editions of The New World of Economics. This new edition of The New World will expose new generations of economics students to how McKenzie and Tullock have applied in a lucid manner a relatively small number of economic concepts and principles to a cluster of topics that have been in the book from its first release and to a larger number of topics that are new to this edition, with the focus of the new topics on showing students how economic thinking can be applied to business decision making. This edition continues the book’s tradition of taking contrarian stances on important economic issues. Economics professors have long reported that The New World is a rare book in that students will read it without being required to do so.
