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Comments on: What do Easter trading laws and bus timetables have in common? http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/04/18/what-do-easter-trading-laws-and-bus-timetables-have-in-common/ The Visible Hand in Economics Fri, 18 Apr 2014 04:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: What do Easter trading laws and bus timetables have in common? http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/04/18/what-do-easter-trading-laws-and-bus-timetables-have-in-common/#comment-42986 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 04:13:02 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11233#comment-42986 […] Matt Nolan Today is Good Friday, I have just moved house, and have no food – so I’m trying to work […]

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/04/18/what-do-easter-trading-laws-and-bus-timetables-have-in-common/#comment-42985 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:49:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11233#comment-42985 In reply to Eric Crampton.

I agree with the spacing, that is one of the arguments against strict weekends. But, as I like to say, this is a potential argument for why days like Christmas Day are how they are.

I’m not particularly happy about it, given I went for a run before I remembered I couldn’t get food, but I thought I’d make the case for fun!

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/04/18/what-do-easter-trading-laws-and-bus-timetables-have-in-common/#comment-42984 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:47:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11233#comment-42984 In reply to Mark Hubbard.

It is a “potential” argument for – it is possible to make an argument for anything, but then we have to ask if the assumptions are fair. In this case the assumptions might be a bit strong 😉

]]> By: Mark Hubbard http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/04/18/what-do-easter-trading-laws-and-bus-timetables-have-in-common/#comment-42983 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:29:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11233#comment-42983 In reply to Mark Hubbard.

Oh, I could courier you some old toilet paper if required. We’re on capitalism here and have electronic bidets.

]]> By: Mark Hubbard http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/04/18/what-do-easter-trading-laws-and-bus-timetables-have-in-common/#comment-42982 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:28:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11233#comment-42982 This post, from an economist, is a text book example of why command economies don’t work. An economist running his household like Venezuela, not even able to coordinate food for a single day.
🙂

]]> By: Eric Crampton http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/04/18/what-do-easter-trading-laws-and-bus-timetables-have-in-common/#comment-42981 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:26:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11233#comment-42981 You’ve got it backwards, IMHO. There’s a coordination failure caused by everyone taking their holidays at the same time and bumping into each other in the popular spots. We all get 5 weeks leave. If you can’t figure out a week that’s off at the same time as your friends, the fault’s likely yours: and especially where everybody basically shuts down from Christmas to New Year’s.

Spread the holidays out over the year, you get fewer congestion issues on the roads to the holiday spots, fewer peak-load issues in popular places… all kinds of win.

And it isn’t like people can’t voluntarily coordinate this stuff when they deliberately want congestion: just set a rock music festival someplace and watch everybody take a couple days off work.

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