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New research shows people experience the ‘endowment effect’ of valuing an object more when they can touch it, even in virtual settings.

New research shows people experience the ‘endowment effect’ of valuing an object more when they can touch it, even in virtual settings.

Coases theorem explains one way of solving market failure with regards to externalities. It states that the problem of externalities can be solved with...

Exponentially by doing it over and over again. its the old pull off the band-aid or rip it off a little bit at a time. >> which way do you do it? >> i just rip it off. >> thats your theory with this right here. problem is many americans are involved in what they call the endowment effect which is -- >> steve, once you get something, you dont want to give it up. even if you get -- even if youre going to get something that is of greater value, youment -- want more and much more. >> you dont want t...

That its your belief and based on behavioral economics that we would better to do this in one full swoop, do all the cuts as opposed to the small increments. why? >> death by 1,000 cuts. theres going to be misery and theres going to be civil unrest regardless any time we make a cut but if we make cut after cut after cut, it will just inflame people more and more and we will see civil unrest unlike anything weve seen in our lifetime. >> right, and weve gotten a little taste of civil unrest in wis...