puzzles

Solve Puzzles and Find Shinies in ‘Bad Magpie’

发表于 2026-11-03 shinies shiny magpie

In Bad Magpie, you play as a little magpie that has wounded their wings. Now that the world has given you a bad time, you will be fighting back by setting thing…

Richard McKenzie on Prices

发表于 2008-06-23 pricing popcorn movies

Richard McKenzie of the University California, Irvine and the author of Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies and Other Pricing Puzzles, talks with EconTalk h…

Garett Jones on Macro and Twitter

发表于 2010-02-22 earmarks garett macro

Garett Jones of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the art of communicating economics via puzzles and short provocative insight…

Robert Frank on Dinner Table Economics

发表于 2016-01-04 dinner puzzles robert

How can you learn to think like an economist? One way is to think about what might be called dinner table economics--puzzles or patterns that arise in everyday …

A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles

发表于 2022-06-28 algorithms puzzles solving

How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J. Jacobs, author of The Puzzler , talks with EconTalk host Russ Ro…