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Sunk Costs and Utility

As the school year begins to wind down, I have begun to hear seniors discuss their future beyond OSU. A friend of mine, a computer science and mathematics double major shared with me an experience he had applying for a … Continue reading

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Tracking externalities in the private sector

Negative and positive externality costs and benefits are rarely the stuff that makes headlines. While they are easy to identify on a principle’s level graph ,in the real world it is harder to find them stated in such black and … Continue reading

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Can the Super Bowl Really Predict the Stock Market?

Tomorrow evening, millions of people will tune in to watch the forty-eighth Super Bowl between the Seahawks and the Broncos. Some will do it because they are fans of one of the teams that are playing, many will do it … Continue reading

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Hardcover Price Discrimination

As an ardent book lover, I spend a good deal of my free time roaming around bookstores. As a kid with a propensity to finish a book a day, and who planned out book releases a year in advance, the … Continue reading

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