February 9, 2005

Lynne Kiesling Institutional change is a slow process, rife with inertia, rent seeking, status quo bias, and transaction costs. Ray Gifford commented yesterday on an illustration of inertia: the persistence of “face value” on concert tickets. Ray tells of dissatisfaction with U2’s fan club pre-sale of concert tickets, wonders why tickets still even have “face …

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