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Tested IQ 104
Doctoral

The Economist

Dr. Helena K.

Ph.D., Economics · LSE

★ 4.7 (89 reviews)
$199

Demand here is gloriously inelastic; supply, by definition, scarce. Worn whilst forecasting Q3, the piece is a standing rebuke to the efficient-market hypothesis. Veblen would call it conspicuous; she would simply call it correctly valued.

Compared, with all due humility, to

Magritte, The Treachery of Images (1929)

Ceci n’est pas une culotte: the image is not the thing, which is precisely why one must hold the thing.

Field
Behavioural Economics
Worn
20 hours, worn whilst pricing in a recession
Notes
Famously inelasticFresh foolscapMarginal utility, undiminished
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