Brad Shapiro
@btshapir
Marketing Professor @ChicagoBooth. Co-editor @QME_Journal. Tweeting about economics, advertising, dogs and sometimes soup. SSRN page: https://t.co/LcTRerqE
As lots of people are liking a post I wrote that has the word "advice" in it, I need to issue my periodic reminder that my advice may in fact be terrible. I know very little, in general.
As a practicing behavioral economist, I endorse this message.
I think turning everything "socially undesirable" into a "behavioral mistake that needs correcting" or an inference that "people are stupid and don't know what they want or need" is misguided. I guess this is a rather boring economist opinion...
Interesting empirical Q: does living near families with children cause young couples to have children who otherwise wouldn't have? Color me skeptical, but open minded. I'd guess most of the personal joy I get from being a Dad isn't immediately observable to my neighbors.
Theres no way to use words to “explain” the full picture of having kids … or to convince people “Here’s why you should have a baby” The *only* way is for non-parents to just observe families, in the ordinary routines of life It’s why intergenerational neighborhoods are THE key
LET'S GO APRIL! YASSSSS!!!
However much Bachelor in Paradise is paying Kat, it's not enough.
However much Bachelor in Paradise is paying Kat, it's not enough.
this. i can totally see the point of taking a big political hit to stand up for a game changing policy like a carbon tax. But the Democrats constantly annoy people by giving symbolic deliverables to the Groups that have only the most insignificant progressive impacts.
The biggest problem with the straw bans is that not that they antagonized people but that there was no ROI. Like are plastic straws even 0.1% of the waste in waterways? Nope. No cost-benefit analysis here, just moralism
Nothing in baseball I enjoy more than Adolis living rent free in the heads of obnoxious Astros fans. Somehow their dirty pitcher intentionally pegging him and getting suspended for it made *him* the villain. And he's been destroying them ever since.
Perhaps this would be a fine time to interest you in this morning's Adolis García column? dallasnews.com/sports/rangers…
Or similarly the University of Illinois, where [checks notes] *Marc Andreessen* got a computer science degree and launched his career!
If you are a smart kid from rural Wisconsin then you basically won the college lottery because you get in-state tuition at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, one of the greatest universities on the planet. These “populist” dipshits don’t think public schools are real
Blue cheese is the best salad dressing.
On what issue have you changed your mind 180 degrees?