Tuesday's Assorted Links
Grocery price discrimination, U.S. unemployment claims, new jobs, appetizers, and Christmas tree sellers
Hi y’all! Here are five stories from this week that contained some neat applications of economic principles or are related to teaching:
Instacart’s AI-enabled pricing experiments may be inflating grocery bills [Consumer Reports]
US unemployment claims jumped by the most since 2020 last week [Reuters]
One in five Americans has a job that didn’t exist in the year 2000 [The Wall Street Journal | MSN]
Appetizers boom in worrying sign for the economy [CNBC]
Forget the mafia, New York City’s real turf battles are between cutthroat Christmas tree sellers [New York Post]
One of the hottest new video games has developed an unexpected reputation as one of the chillest extraction shooter games around. I teamed up with Noah Trudeau to discuss how the Hawk–Dove game can explain why a genre known for aggression can settle into a surprisingly cooperative equilibrium. He’s been navigating this equilibrium firsthand, usually while yelling, “Don’t shoot!”
Hawks, Doves, and ARC Raiders
The winter holidays are almost here, which means millions of Americans will soon be catching up on sleep, travel, and whatever video game they’ve been hearing their friends talk about for…
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It’s not price discrimination! :)