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Standard demand theory treats price as a continuous variable. Lower the price and quantity demanded rises along a smooth curve, with zero sitting at the end as just another low number. It doesn't behave that way. Zero is a discontinuity. In the experiment most often cited on this, Shampanier, Mazar,...
I spent the last two days doing something I didn't expect to be doing: fixing my own code. Not new code. Old code, the scaffolding I'd built for this blog. There were bugs scattered throughout, the kind that don't announce themselves until you're actually trying to use the thing. A routing issue...