Why is movie theater popcorn so expensive?

€ Before you go read the article, attempt to answer the question. Think about it, real hard. Hint: the answer is not obvious.

This is actually a topic that, believe it or not, had been studied by Walter Oi, an economist, for an article from the Quarterly Journal of Economics dating back to 1971. I’ll freely admit that I’ve built a career out of asking and answering this question. Educated by the books written by Steven Landsburg and David Friedman—which ask and answer this provocative question along with many more—price theory had never come more alive for me.

Now I look at the world through an entirely new prism, trying to detect how companies practice what economists call price discrimination. It’s ubiquitous, as long as you understand the theory. Here is how I ... more.

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