About a week ago I made a post describing how the Hawaii trip incentive spilled over to my boys and they became ‘encouragers’ to my wife. I wasn’t sure what the name of this unintended effect was, but I stumbled across the answer in that same SuperFreakonomics book. Economists call it a ‘positive externality’, where [...]
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