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Because this blog is about the economics of media, sometimes we have to talk about the dismal science of economics. The talk among economists these days is about getting people back to work and re-starting the world’s economies. And one of the many discoveries of the covid-19 crisis has been that a huge part of […]
Read More »An all-star group of media economics experts gathered at the University of Navarra Dec. 13 and 14 to exchange ideas and research results on the role and behavior of media during periods of economic or financial boom and crash. Their approaches were varied: historical, media effects, content analysis, journalistic practice, political economy, etc. (The full […]
Read More »Scientists and philosophers have spent a lot of their time and energy trying to describe what makes humans different from animals. So have economists. Blue-striped cleaner wrasses at work. Photo by Gregory R. Mann But it turns out that animals have economic market behaviors similar to humans, such as customer differentiation (a fish called the […]
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