The very successful Freakonomics has been a whirlwind bestseller over the last few years, where economic theory is applied to a wide range of subjects and events that one wouldn’t think would be relevant to economics. Good parenting versus a decent education, socioeconomic patterns of naming children, what the KKK and real estate agents have in common and so on. The concept has springboarded to an excellent New York Times Blog, and now the gents behind the thing have added writer Robin Goldstein of Blind Taste to their army of writers.
Goldstein writes in his fascinating blog about the intersection of wine, food and cognitive behaviours.
Things like:
Why are seemingly only Swedish wine stores organised by price?
Are empty wine bottles being sold on eBay being used for wine fraud?
Generally, is it possible to really ascertain a wine’s value by blind tasting, when studies show otherwise?
Author Steven Levitt introduces him to the Freakonomics blog right over here…
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October 31st, 2009 at 4:00 pm
[...] In the excellent Freakonomics Blog on the New York Times Website, every now and then there’s something cool and relevant for us in the wine world, as we’ve discussed here before. [...]