Comments on: The deadweight loss of Christmas http://stevereads.com/weblog/2005/12/29/the-deadweight-loss-of-christmas/ Books and policy from an endlessly curious perspective Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chung-chieh Shan http://stevereads.com/weblog/2005/12/29/the-deadweight-loss-of-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-1854 Chung-chieh Shan Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://stevereads.com/weblog/economics_and_statistics/deadweight_loss_of_christmas.html#comment-1854 <p>My favorite sentence from the first page is, "While these recipients may be unrepresentative of the U.S. population, their gifts are not necessarily unrepresentative." How is this sentence falsifiable? <p> How do economists think of non-transferable gifts, anyway?</p> My favorite sentence from the first page is, “While these recipients may be unrepresentative of the U.S. population, their gifts are not necessarily unrepresentative.” How is this sentence falsifiable?

How do economists think of non-transferable gifts, anyway?

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