Unlearning Economics | Surge Pricing Will Kill Us All @unlearningeconomics9021 | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
This was supposed to be released on NYE but hey who cares? (PS I’m good at my job)
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:59 The (Purported) Benefits of Surge Pricing
9:01 Uber Protagonist
22:45 The Dynamic Pricing World
33:12 "What Do" - Lenin
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Produced by Hobbie Stuart
Animations/Thumbnail by Grim Friberg
Artwork by Jacob Cob
© 2023 Unlearning Economics
Thanks so much to my Discord mods for the quotes.
I am an academic economist from the UK who has long been critical of the economics profession and how economics is used in public policy. Mostly the channel will cover economics with a critical perspective but I aim to educate people about economics in the process, so I'll try to explain key concepts and ideas along the way. That way, even if you disagree with aspects of the videos you will hopefully learn something from them. Subscribe for more!
References (in rough order of appearance)
5 reasons everyone should love surge pricing – Timothy B. Lee vox.com/2014/12/31/7475923/case-for-surge-pricing
What Money Can’t Buy - Michael Sandel
Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson
Dynamic Pricing in a Labor Market: Surge Pricing and Flexible Work on the Uber Platform – Chen and Sheldon
Technical Note on CS paper: docs.google.com/document/d/1jPBM46qNpY6L8AIaA5xtWOkAVPEOq_-oaN-hNLx36HM/edit?usp=sharing
Reference-Dependent Preferences and Labor Supply: The Case of New York City Taxi Drivers – Farber
Constructing a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange – Mackenzie and Milo
Freakonomics – Levitt and Dubner
Uber’s secret weapon is its team of economists - Alison Griswold
Surge Pricing and Short-term Wage Elasticity of Labor Supply in Real-Time Ridesharing Markets – He et al
End State - James Plunkett
The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
Is surge pricing a fair way to manage demand? -Tim Harford
Fair Pricing - Rotemberg
‘Privacy, Economics, and Price Discrimination on the Internet’ - Odlyzko
The Efficient Queue and The Case Against Surge Pricing - Woodcock
Generating equality and eliminating poverty, the Swedish way – Bkorjlund and Freeman
This was supposed to be released on NYE but hey who cares? (PS I’m good at my job)
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:59 The (Purported) Benefits of Surge Pricing
9:01 Uber Protagonist
22:45 The Dynamic Pricing World
33:12 "What Do" - Lenin
See every side of every news story with Ground News https://ground.news/unlearningeconomics
UE links
Patreon: patreon.com/unlearneconomics
Twitter: twitter.com/UnlearnEcon
Discord: discord.com/invite/jy8CNzDsgf
Reddit: reddit.com/r/UnlearningEconomics
Twitch: twitch.tv/unlearningeconomics
Produced by Hobbie Stuart
Animations/Thumbnail by Grim Friberg
Artwork by Jacob Cob
© 2023 Unlearning Economics
Thanks so much to my Discord mods for the quotes.
I am an academic economist from the UK who has long been critical of the economics profession and how economics is used in public policy. Mostly the channel will cover economics with a critical perspective but I aim to educate people about economics in the process, so I'll try to explain key concepts and ideas along the way. That way, even if you disagree with aspects of the videos you will hopefully learn something from them. Subscribe for more!
References (in rough order of appearance)
5 reasons everyone should love surge pricing – Timothy B. Lee vox.com/2014/12/31/7475923/case-for-surge-pricing
What Money Can’t Buy - Michael Sandel
Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson
Dynamic Pricing in a Labor Market: Surge Pricing and Flexible Work on the Uber Platform – Chen and Sheldon
Technical Note on CS paper: docs.google.com/document/d/1jPBM46qNpY6L8AIaA5xtWOkAVPEOq_-oaN-hNLx36HM/edit?usp=sharing
Reference-Dependent Preferences and Labor Supply: The Case of New York City Taxi Drivers – Farber
Constructing a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange – Mackenzie and Milo
Freakonomics – Levitt and Dubner
Uber’s secret weapon is its team of economists - Alison Griswold
Surge Pricing and Short-term Wage Elasticity of Labor Supply in Real-Time Ridesharing Markets – He et al
End State - James Plunkett
The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
Is surge pricing a fair way to manage demand? -Tim Harford
Fair Pricing - Rotemberg
‘Privacy, Economics, and Price Discrimination on the Internet’ - Odlyzko
The Efficient Queue and The Case Against Surge Pricing - Woodcock
Generating equality and eliminating poverty, the Swedish way – Bkorjlund and Freeman
