Linky Friday: Hangovers, Black Friday, and Better Days Edition
Linky Friday, Ordinary Times’ tradition of bringing you stories to read, share, and discuss from all across the interwebs is here to help you navigate Black Friday
Category: Economics
Bittersweet Symphony: 2020 in Retrospect
2020 has been a rough year. But like my hometown of Flint, Michigan there is joy amidst the grief.
Attention Must Be Paid: The Electoral Lessons of the Working Class
The answer is no, liberals and NeverTrump conservatives haven’t learned a thing from 2016 about the working class.
Retail Blues: Losing the Formative Experience of Young Workers
Fewer young people in the workforce means a longer delay in the development of not only the workforce, but the habits of work that make for better people.
Can You Housewife Your Way Out of Poverty?
Don’t put YOUR unreasonable expectations onto the backs of the working poor. They’ve already got enough to carry.
New Job Numbers: Slowed Gains, Unemployment Down, No California Numbers
Not bad news, but a big side note to the latest jobs numbers
Perverse Incentives
The key to successful government policy is through perverse incentive mitigation, usually through the Law of Unintended Consequences.
In Theory
We don’t live in a perfect world. This love of theory is why economics on an academic level is virtually useless.
Election 2020 Chapter 5: Towards The Homestretch…
I suspect the movement we’ll see from here will be minimal, meaning Biden will have many paths to 270 versus Trump’s little room for error.
The Economics of Video Games, Part I: Exclusivity
Video games, much like action figures, are a fascinating example to look at for the application of economic concepts in the real world.
Downvote: Spotify’s Assault on Artists
For those of you that are unfamiliar, Spotify operates on the most unsustainable economic model in probably the known universe
The Economics of Action Figures Part II: Contrived Scarcity
Scarcity ties into a couple topics that few really understand. The biggest of these is the Accounting 101 concept of assets, liabilities, and equities.
The Economics of Action Figures Part I: Value
The action figure market is one of the best case studies in the economic concept of value. Value is inherently an individual and subjective beast.
Barbarians at the Gate: Credentialism and Loving Gatekeeping, Under Certain Circumstances…
Credentialism is a game whose rules are arbitrary and subject to change at any time…And it just gets worse every generation.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Distant Sounds of Inevitability Edition
Crisis reveals character, the old saying goes. Our institutions and leaders are having that exact experience right now.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth Edition
Welp, that was some week, and the weekend was just as nuts. As we start to careen into the Fourth of July holiday, we need to handle a bit of business from the week...
Morning Ed: Economics
The virus gives us the opportunity to remake the economy. Some people are salivating at the prospect.
Butcher Box, Misfits Market, and Food Delivered in a Box
Just thinking of how a box of organic fruit and vegetables being delivered to your house from some random warehouse gave me the howling fantods.
Chick-fil-A and the Personal Touch of Jesus Chicken in the Age of Coronavirus
Chick-fil-A has a revolutionary idea in how to learn what a customer wants in their order: they ask. Nicely.
