Comments on: I Lied To My Wife The Other Day http://cheaptalk.org/2012/10/21/i-lied-to-my-wife-the-other-day/ A blog about economics, politics and the random interests of forty-something professors Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:10:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: » Assorted Links Jacob Geller's blog http://cheaptalk.org/2012/10/21/i-lied-to-my-wife-the-other-day/#comment-19908 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:13:26 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/?p=12279#comment-19908 [...] 2.  Kitchenomics. [...]

]]> By: Mark Ifi http://cheaptalk.org/2012/10/21/i-lied-to-my-wife-the-other-day/#comment-19742 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:24:36 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/?p=12279#comment-19742 now, that is interesting. consider if even a small portion of people won’t wash them, they have to wash and rinse them anyway, unless they have some sorting facility for separating dirty plastic. i don’t think in any society there’s a 100% wash rate.

]]> By: Markus Mobius http://cheaptalk.org/2012/10/21/i-lied-to-my-wife-the-other-day/#comment-19669 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:26:38 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/?p=12279#comment-19669 Buy big joghurts instead of those small ones – then you have to lie less often.

]]> By: David http://cheaptalk.org/2012/10/21/i-lied-to-my-wife-the-other-day/#comment-19631 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:40:06 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/?p=12279#comment-19631 Uh oh! Someone is in trouble.

I have to agree with Roger about rinsing yogurt cups (and many other things) after a significant time being exposed to the air. Whatever was left on or in them dries out and becomes exponentially harder to wash off. That why when I’m too lazy to actually wash the dishes, I at least leave water in them to prevent the food from drying on ;)

]]> By: The Wife http://cheaptalk.org/2012/10/21/i-lied-to-my-wife-the-other-day/#comment-19620 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:56:37 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/?p=12279#comment-19620 I do read from time to time! :) I care about the Earth and I do recycle. Yes… I remember explicitly of the yogurt incident and many other ones. Little did he know that I take it out and rinse it. I also take out cans from the trash that is supposed to go into the recycling because Jeff is too lazy to rinse it. So… we can just conclude that Jeff doesn’t like to recycle and don’t really care about the Earth! You are in trouble! Now I have to crack the whip.

]]> By: Roger Williams http://cheaptalk.org/2012/10/21/i-lied-to-my-wife-the-other-day/#comment-19613 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:51:58 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/?p=12279#comment-19613 If you’ve ever tried washing a yogurt container some hours after consumption, rather than immediately, you’ll see that it really is much easier to wash it immediately, so it isn’t completely obvious that there are no welfare gains to be made.

Then again, you’re a big shot professor and the recyclers probably at most finished high school, so the value of their time is probably worthless compared to yours.

]]> By: Joshua Gans http://cheaptalk.org/2012/10/21/i-lied-to-my-wife-the-other-day/#comment-19607 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:54:12 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/?p=12279#comment-19607 @GM, I think that he was signalling to us that his wife did not, in fact, read his blog but that we should consider the equilibrium. Currently, he writes stuff that is obviously not of interest or of insufficient interest to compete for her attention. However, as a result, Jeff has a vehicle for communicating things to the world that he believes will, in fact, be of great interest to his wife but that he doesn’t want her to see. As a result, his wife will read his blog from time to time in part of a mixed strategy.

]]> By: GM http://cheaptalk.org/2012/10/21/i-lied-to-my-wife-the-other-day/#comment-19596 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:34:35 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/?p=12279#comment-19596 My wife wonders what is going to happen when your wife reads your blog…

]]> By: Anonymous http://cheaptalk.org/2012/10/21/i-lied-to-my-wife-the-other-day/#comment-19594 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 04:33:52 +0000 http://cheaptalk.org/?p=12279#comment-19594 Shouldn’t this be cheap talk? If your wife understands the incentives that would drive a disagreeing Jeff to pretend to agree with her in principle, she ought to infer that your stated agreement means nothing

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