Saturday, February 16, 2008

Marginal Revolution: Markets in Everything

It's so handy to have them in one place. Thanks guys.
(these are just the more recent ones, what the heroin dealers used to call a taste. Speaking of heroin, what's up with Baltimore?)

From MarketsInEverything.com:

February

  1. Charging for job interviews (February 4)
  1. Super Bowl betting markets (February 3)

January 2008

  1. Cheeseburger in a can (January 31)
  1. Nude flights in Germany (January 29)
  1. Relief pitcher earnings (January 23)
  1. Put options for your gadgets (January 19)
  1. MarketsInEverything.com (January 18)
  1. Police patronage protects prostitutes (January 14)
  1. School officials offer students cash to snitch (January 12)
  1. Student sells spot in Steve Levitt's Economics of Crime class (January 8)
  1. An alarm clock that spends your money when you oversleep (January 7)

December 2007

  1. Luxury handbag rentals (December 25)
  1. Investing in lawsuits (December 24)
  1. Three tramuatizing postcards from Poland (December 19)
  1. I Love Greg Mankiw T-Shirts (December 6)

November 2007

  1. Tumbleweeds (November 27)
  1. Bay Area Center for Voting for sale (November 23)
  1. Supervised commitment bonds (November 19)
  1. Cigarette vending machines with facial recognition (November 14)
  1. Bookstores where you can go to watch TV (November 12)
  1. Exploding piggy banks (November 8)
  1. Cheat Neutral (November 8)
  1. Fake ATM receipts (November 3)
  1. Kosher cell phone service (November 2)
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