{"id":60,"date":"2003-03-14T11:46:32","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/03\/14\/the-economics-of-waiting-in-line\/"},"modified":"2003-03-14T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2003-03-14T19:46:32","slug":"the-economics-of-waiting-in-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"The Economics of Waiting in Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re even slightly an economic geek, you&#8217;ll enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.j-bradford-delong.net\/movable_type\/2003_archives\/001164.html\">this funny post by Brad DeLong<\/a>, discussing how different economic thinkers would react to rich folks paying poor folks to wait in line for them. Then, to extend the fun, you can go read this (unintentionally?) hilarious <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/100332\">article by Steven Landsburg<\/a>, arguing that lines would be more efficient if newcomers went to the front of the line, rather than the back.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=buy-maxalt-safely-online\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re even slightly an economic geek, you&#8217;ll enjoy this funny post by Brad DeLong, discussing how different economic thinkers would react to rich folks paying poor folks to wait in line for them. Then, to extend the fun, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=60\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-the-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}