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Christmas presents: Dead loss or incalculably valuable?

Economically Speaking: The real value of gifts, as perceived by the recipient.

John McDermott
Tue, 17 Dec 2019

I still haven’t started my Christmas shopping but, as I start to think about what gifts to buy, I am reminded of one of the most interesting economic articles I ever read. 

When I was a student at Yale University, one of the professors, Joel Waldfogel, surveyed his students about the gifts

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John McDermott
Tue, 17 Dec 2019
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