Why popcorn costs so much at the movies : and other pricing puzzles /
By: McKenzie, Richard B.
Publisher: New York ; London : Copernicus Books, c2008Description: xv, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780387769998 (hardcover); 9780387769998:.Subject(s): Pricing -- United States | Prices -- United States | Value![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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338.5 BIS Risks in modern society / | 338.5 PIN Microeconomics / | 338.509417 JAC Mind your own business : economics at work / | 338.520973 MCK Why popcorn costs so much at the movies : and other pricing puzzles / | 338.542 KRU The return of depression economics / | 338.542 KRU The return of depression economics : and the crisis of 2008 / | 338.542 LEW Panic : the story of modern financial insanity / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-317) and index.
Preface: How price matters -- Price and the "law of unintended consequences" -- Pricing lemons, views, and university housing -- Why sales -- Why popcorn costs so much at the movies -- Why so many coupons -- Why some goods are free -- Free printers and pricey ink cartridges -- Why movie ticket prices are all the same -- Why so many prices end with "9" -- The economics of manufacturers' rebates -- The psychology and evolutionary biology of manufacturers' rebates -- The question of queues -- Why men earn more on average than women-and always will.
This text seeks to unravel an array of pricing puzzles from the one captured in the book's title to why so many prices end with '9' (as in $2.99 or $179) to why ink cartridges can cost as much as printers to why stores use sales, coupons, and rebates.