Valentine's Consumer Surplus
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day in the States, or as economists call it, “Costly Signaling Day.” I can now call it Consumer Surplus day.
I’m at the store, being a basic Valentine and buying my wife a dozen roses. Later she is going to tell her friend what I did, and her friend is going to say her husband thinks buying flowers are a waste of money. I can’t …
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