Last Christmas there was a bit of talk on the shortage of Wii’s. There are a number of examples where people claimed Nintendo intentionally withheld supplies, I’ll highlight one made at EveryJoe: Nintendo claims the shortage is not manufactured as one might wonder. While Nintendo claims a manufactured shortage is not good business, it does […]
Economics
Iowa Economy: Manufacturing Jobs in Iowa
Here mostly as a reminder. Source: Des Moines Register.
Applied Microeconomics
From a series of forum posts: Person 1: I wasn’t all that impressed with [Johnny Walker] Blue… it seemed to go so far down the “how smooth can we make it” path that it didn’t have a whole ton of personality… Person 2: People don’t drink Johnny Walker Blue because they like it… people drink […]
ECON 102 – Homework #2
Homework #2 has been posted on the course page and below. This is due Thursday, July 9th.
The Effects of Graduate-student Unionization from MEA Conference
A presentation based on early results. This model has now been entirely replaced.