22 Dec 2012

Barbie-nomics

From This Way Up, 1:55 pm on 22 December 2012
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Why are you paying loads more for some types of Barbie doll this Christmas when they are all pretty much the same?! Emily Oster of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business is investigating the 'Barbie Paradox'.

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