Mitt Romney, One Night Stands, and the Economics of Relationships
The ways we exchange goods and services says lots about the how we interact with the people around us. More »
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The ways we exchange goods and services says lots about the how we interact with the people around us. More »
Guest post by Gabriel Rossman -- Sociologist at UCLA. His work applies economic sociology to media industries. He blogs at Code and Culture and is the author of Climbing the Charts. I study media markets and one of the interesting things about the entertainment industry is there's a lot of complex pricing. This includes both simple bundling (eg, basic cable) and two-part tariffs (eg, HBO). These pricing practices are forms of price discrimination, which is to say… More »
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