The Answer Is Transaction Costs

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What is it that beach parking lots are actually selling? Why do beer bottles cost more than cans? And just what are costs of the thing, as opposed to the costs of selling or buying the thing? Can you really separate them out?

  • Mass MOCA: "Wilco's Solid Sound" Music Festival https://massmoca.org/event/solid-sound-2024/
  • "To Consumers, ALL Costs are Transaction Costs." AIER, by Michael Munger. https://www.aier.org/article/to-consumers-all-costs-are-transaction-costs/
  • Yogi Berra "quotes" (mostly attributed, rather than actual). https://businesscoachingofpa.com/top-100-classic-yogi-berra-quotes/

Book o'da'week: Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age Kindle Edition Michael A. Hiltzik, 2009, Harper-Collins.  https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/dp/0887309895

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