Agoraphilia

This morning I saw an ad for Kinoki foot pads , which allegedly suck toxins out through the soles of your feet while you sleep. Right. But...

A recent conversation about dating activities raised the following question: Why is bowling more popular than miniature golf for a date? (...

Allow me to recommend "Capitalism and the Family," an essay recently written by Steven Horwitz, Professor of Economics at St. Law...

In Discover Your Inner Economist , Tyler Cowen takes up the issue of toilet seat norms. One individual wrote an economic or “game-theoretic”...

Ilya Somin, in two posts , criticizes a class action lawsuit against private night clubs that have ladies’ nights, during which they offer ...

I’m usually very optimistic about new technologies, but I’m not looking forward to this: automatic toilet paper dispensers . Those damnabl...

I’ve blogged about toilet-seat norms twice before . Now there is another contribution to the debate. However, I don’t think it’s especia...

Via Julian , I find the Esquire guide for tipping in bars , which says (among other things) that you should tip “at the very least one dolla...

I did a bit of painting, long ago, as an art student. I never got around to working in oils, though. D and the kids remedied that lacuna i...

Here’s one of my theories that I really can’t justify. In fact, I’m not sure it’s even mathematically possible. But somehow it just seems ...

Rationing by price is usually more efficient than rationing by queuing, so there’s always an economic puzzle to be solved when queuing is em...

Here is the paradox of the comb-over: Men with comb-overs are presumably more image-conscious than most men, because the whole purpose of ...

A few months ago, when I posted my ugly furniture theory , commenter Kevin requested photographic evidence of the ugliness in question. I d...

Neal sent me the link to this post about a swingers’ party . Examining the pricing structure, the author observes, perhaps not surprisingl...

A couple of weeks ago, I promised a couple of new ideas for increasing the blog’s level of activity. Here is one of them: more half-baked...

I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around Julian’s model of macking behavior (“macking” being Julian’s preferred term for flirting or hittin...

In response to last week’s post on the death of the TV theme song , Trent McBride forwarded me another example of how satisfying marginal cu...

Sometime last year, they renovated the faculty lounge at my college. The lounge is much more pleasant than it used to be, with sturdy and s...

This week I’m serving as a faculty member at the Institute for Humane Studies ’ Liberty & Current Issues Seminar, hosted by the Catholic...

About a year ago, I linked Gil Milbauer’s analysis of toilet seat norms . Specifically, Gil addresses the eternal question of who should r...