Technically Economics

Pickleball

Dominic tries to convince Cassidy that pickleball is technically economics. Mentioned: * “A New Product Growth for Model Consumer Durables [https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.15.5.215]” by Frank M. Bass * “Valuing New Goods in a Model with Complementarity: Online Newspapers [https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.97.3.713]” by Matthew Gentzkow * “What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets [https://bookshop.org/p/books/what-money-can-t-buy-the-moral-limits-of-markets-michael-j-sandel/ca54658af9cd32a4?ean=9780374533656&next=t&next=t&source=IndieBound]” by Michael Sandel * “Shattered Nerves, Sleepless Nights: Pickleball Noise Is Driving Everyone Nuts [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/sports/pickleball-noise-complaints-lawsuits.html]” by Andrew Keh * “The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest [https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/06/27/the-economics-of-the-tennis-v-pickleball-contest]” * “SFIA report confirms over 24 million Americans playing pickleball [https://pickleball.com/news/sfia-report-confirms-over-24-million-americans-playing-pickleball]”

Music Festivals

Cassidy tries to convince Dominic that music festivals are technically economics, with the help of guest Lilia Staszel. Mentioned: * Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profits, and Efficiency (Bakos and Brynjolfsson, 1999) [https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.45.12.1613] * Ticketmaster secret scalper program [https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ticketmaster-resellers-las-vegas-1.4828535] * A Model of Reference-Dependent Preferences (Koszegi and Rabin, 2006) [https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/121/4/1133/1855210]

Buffets

Dominic tries to convince Cassidy that buffets are technically economics. Mentioned: * “Yelp’s 2026 Food & Drink Trends [https://www.yelp.com/article/2026-food-and-drink-trends]” * “Man who ate 100 plates of sushi banned from all-you-can-eat buffet [https://www-washingtonpost-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/world/2018/09/18/man-who-ate-plates-sushi-banned-all-you-can-eat-buffet/]” by Jaroslav Bobrowski * “The Flat-Rate Pricing Paradox: Conflicting Effects of “All-You-Can-Eat” Buffet Pricing [https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/93/1/193/57894/The-Flat-Rate-Pricing-Paradox-Conflicting-Effects?redirectedFrom=fulltext]” by David R Just and Brian Wansink * “Paying Too Much and Being Happy About It: Existence, Causes, and Consequences of Tariff-Choice Biases [https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-06165-008]” by Anja Lambrecht and Bernd Skiera * “Nudge [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(book)]” by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein * “The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1685855?seq=1]” by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman * “Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice [https://www.jstor.org/stable/183904?seq=1]” by Richard Thaler

Birding

Cassidy tries to convince Dominic that birding is technically economics. Mentioned: * LISTERS [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-wAqplQAo]: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching * US Fish and Wildlife Service report [https://www.fws.gov/apps/sites/default/files/documents/2024-11/2022-birding-in-the-us-demographic-and-economic-analysis.pdf] on Birding in the United States * Weitzman 1979 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1910412?seq=1], the Pandora's Box problem * The Cornell Lab [https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/]

Weddings

Dominic tries to convince Cassidy that weddings are technically economics. Mentioned: * “'Memories Fade, Bills Don't': Wedding Debt Survey Reveals Remorse [https://money.usnews.com/loans/personal-loans/articles/2025-wedding-debt-survey]” by Erika Giovanetti * “The Wedding Fix Is In [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/the-wedding-fix-is-in.html]” by Catherine Rampell * “Diamonds Aren’t Rare. Why Are They So in Demand? [https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/12/diamonds-de-beers-corporation-rare-marketing/676270/]” by Amanda Mull * “Continuity and Change in the International Diamond Market [https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.20.3.195]” by Debora L. Spar * “Rings and Promises [https://www.jstor.org/stable/764797]” by Margaret F. Brinig * “The Economic Lives of the Poor [https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.21.1.141]” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo * “The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction [https://www.amazon.com/Joyless-Economy-Psychology-Human-Satisfaction/dp/0195073479]” by Tibor Scitovsky * “Debt: The First 5,000 Years [https://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1612191290]” by David Graeber