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Go Shopping with an Economist!

Go Shopping with an Economist!

Update: 2021-03-15
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Have you ever wondered how economic concepts might relate to shopping? How the choices we make might be powered by subconscious economic thinking? This week, the Education Team discusses how simple economics ties to our shopping habits and everyday decision-making!



  • Shopping and diminishing marginal returns (1:06 ).


  • The opportunity costs of our shopping choices (2:55 ).


  • Rational decisions: research by McKinsey (4:04 ).


  • COVID consumer trends (5:36 ).


  • Asymmetric information in markets (6:23 ).


  • Consumption and investment expenditure (7:33 ).


Sources:


Diminishing Marginal Returns


JP Morgan: COVID Consumer Trends


McKinsey: Behavioural Economics


Transcription: Coming Soon!

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