Markets in Everything.com

A chronological index to Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok's Markets in Everything posts at MarginalRevolution.com.

Books by Tyler Cowen

Books by Alex Tarrabok

July 2008

  1. Hostage ransom? (July 4)
  1. Dead mosquitoes (July 1)

June 2008

  1. Cultural diplomacy (June 30)
  1. Japanese toy alarm clock (June 25)
  1. Ukranian coffin restaurant (June 24)
  1. Lives for sale (June 22)
  1. Google bidding games (June 15)
  1. Japanese shouting vases (June 11)
  1. Tanzanian albino body parts (June 8)
  1. Pay to stay jails (June 5)
  1. Japanese maid cafes (June 3)

May 2008

  1. Yugoslavian prisoners and graves (May 31)
  1. French fry tempura (May 28)
  1. Pearl Harbor playing cards (May 25)
  1. Mobs in Japan (May 17)
  1. Adult industry M&A hedge fund (May 12)
  1. Watches that don't tell time (May 2)

April 2008

  1. Coprolite (fossilized dinosaur turds) (April 30)
  1. "Free Tibet" flags made in China (April 29)
  1. Reverse prostitution (April 28)
  1. Want ads for hit men (April 27)
  1. Non-profit prediction markets (April 19)
  1. Twitter accounts (April 14)
  1. Tyler seeks a market in Second Life tutors (April 10)
  1. Facebook "friends" (April 1)

March 2008

  1. Black markets in candy (March 24)
  1. "Tenure" the movie (March 18)
  1. "Client 9" radio (March 16)
  1. The Philosopher's Hotel (March 14)
  1. Adam Smith's house (March 13)
  1. Wigs for cats (March 5)

February 2008

  1. Pre-paid restaurant dinners (February 28)
  1. Express 7-11's (February 25)
  1. Songs only dogs can hear (February 18)
  1. Charging for job interviews (February 4)
  1. Super Bowl betting markets (February 3)

January 2008

  1. Cheeseburger in a can (January 31)
  1. Nude flights in Germany (January 29)
  1. Relief pitcher earnings (January 23)
  1. Put options for your gadgets (January 19)
  1. MarketsInEverything.com (January 18)
  1. Police patronage protects prostitutes (January 14)
  1. School officials offer students cash to snitch (January 12)
  1. Student sells spot in Steve Levitt's Economics of Crime class (January 8)
  1. An alarm clock that spends your money when you oversleep (January 7)

December 2007

  1. Luxury handbag rentals (December 25)
  1. Investing in lawsuits (December 24)
  1. Three tramuatizing postcards from Poland (December 19)
  1. I Love Greg Mankiw T-Shirts (December 6)

November 2007

  1. Tumbleweeds (November 27)
  1. Bay Area Center for Voting for sale (November 23)
  1. Supervised commitment bonds (November 19)
  1. Cigarette vending machines with facial recognition (November 14)
  1. Bookstores where you can go to watch TV (November 12)
  1. Exploding piggy banks (November 8)
  1. Cheat Neutral (November 8)
  1. Fake ATM receipts (November 3)
  1. Kosher cell phone service (November 2)

October 2007

  1. Low cost Indian airline that never flies anywhere (October 9)
  1. Demilitarized ICBM silos (October 4)
  1. American Indian shoes (October 4)

September 2007

  1. Retirement package for Zmbabwean President Robert Mugabe (September 19)
  1. Bus trip from London to Sydney (September 18)

August 2007

  1. Never worn wedding apparel (August 25)
  1. Fake receipts (August 20)
  1. Ten movies not made (August 14)
  1. 100 unusual ice-cream flavors (August 12)
  1. Random number generators (August 6)
  1. Ticket insurance (August 1)

July 2007

  1. Non-Union Union protestors (July 25)
  1. Lawn care from Bikini-clad women (July 23)
  1. Trading driver's license points (July 12)
  1. Replacement drivers (July 10)
  1. Telekinesis (July 8)
  1. The Reading Cave (July 6)

June 2007

  1. Bet on someone being trampled to get an iPhone on June 29th (June 25)
  1. Pretend cakes (June 17)
  1. Rentable goats (June 15)
  1. Dutch powdered alcohol (June 7)
  1. Bounty for prostitutes to out congressional customers (June 5)

May 2007

  1. Hieronymous Bosch action figures (May 31)
  1. Details on cooperating witnesses (May 23)
  1. Discounted funeral costs for organ donors (May 16)
  1. MBA in corporate social responsibility (May 15)
  1. Pasadena, CA newspaper reporting outsourced to India (May 11)
  1. Keys to the Iowa State Penitentiary (May 7)
  1. Mexican coke at Costco (May 4)
  1. Search engine keywords for breaking news (May 4)
  1. Baghdad corpse kidnappings (May 1)

April 2007

  1. Five-star jail (April 29)
  1. Eddie Cumberbatch CDs (April 25)
  1. Civil jury trials declining (April 22)
  1. Dividing a family estate via intra-family auctions (April 19)
  1. Professional athletes (April 18)
  1. Roman Empire (April 16)
  1. Artificial jobs? (April 14)
  1. Schoenberg t-shirts, pencils, mousepads and postcards (April 13)
  1. Last minute reservations at top NYC restaurants (April 11)
  1. Asia's smelliest fruit (April 9)
  1. Online flirting (April 6)

March 2007

  1. $4,000 extra for used hybrids with California state carpool stickers (March 27)
  1. Kosher gasoline (March 19)
  1. Podcast with Russ Roberts (March 12)

February 2007

  1. Tank chairs (February 27)
  1. Pay via cell-phone to have street lights turned on (February 25)
  1. NBA deals (February 24)
  1. $75 to feed a sheep to a tiger (February 19)
  1. Diamons grown with DNA from Beethoven's hair (February 16)
  1. Global Warming Bonds (February 14)
  1. Indonesia looking to sell straings of bird flu virus (February 7)
  1. Doctors leaving Germany (February 7)

January 2007

  1. Lindsay Lohan's frozen appendix (January 30)
  1. Betting on historical horse races (January 29)
  1. Private Israeli moon plots (January 28)
  1. Illinois lottery for sale (January 25)
  1. Rent a Protestor (January 24)
  1. Silent ringtone (January 22)
  1. First fragrance automotive tire (January 21)
  1. Become an Australian surfer dude (January 18)
  1. Hot Coke with ginger (January 17)

December 2006

  1. Shoe lace cinch for long-distance runners (December 27)
  1. South Korean males compensated for vowing to abstain (December 26)
  1. Marijuana may be America's biggest cash crop (December 19)
  1. Carnivorous Plant of the Month Club (December 17)
  1. Border fence (December 15)
  1. Bibles for porn stars (December 14)
  1. Serial killer busts (December 9)
  1. Bathe in pure crude oil in Azerbaijan (December 4)
  1. At-home drug tests (December 4)
  1. Have cards sent to atheists after the rapture (December 3)
  1. Bid for meals at restaurants (December 1)

November 2006

  1. Pet ashes as art (November 30)
  1. Britney Spears junior high school notebook (November 28)
  1. Polonium (November 26)
  1. O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It" on eBay (November 23)
  1. Contact information for someone who bought an extra PS3 (November 21)
  1. Street naming (November 20)
  1. Spelling mistake arbitrage on eBay (November 16)

October 2006

  1. Cash incentives for African dictators (October 26)
  1. Major League Baseball caskets (October 20)
  1. Ice cream sandwiches for dogs (October 16)
  1. Japanese inventions (October 13)
  1. Betting markets in CEO tenure (October 13)
  1. Starting time of Chicago White Sox home games (October 11)
  1. Monty Python argument clinic (October 11)
  1. Danish animal bordellos (October 3)

September 2006

  1. Deaf embryos (September 29)
  1. Hypoallegenic cats (September 21)
  1. Slimming cameras (September 19)
  1. Prisoners looking for pen pals (September 19)
  1. CIA counterrorism officers purchasing private liability insurance (September 13)
  1. Join the Mile High Club (September 9)
  1. Hurricane damage futures (September 5)
  1. Skip phone trees while calling companies (September 4)

August 2006

  1. Spend a night as an illegal immigrant crossing the Rio Grande (August 24)
  1. Japanese mud balls (August 24)
  1. Serbian police for rent (August 16)
  1. Best friends and anonymous hating (August 16)
  1. Paris Hilton appearances (August 10)
  1. Betting on Castro's death (August 5)
  1. Indian doctors caught amputating the healthy limbs of beggars (August 2)

July 2006

  1. Body doubles (July 29)
  1. Japanese gameshows (July 29)
  1. Betting markets in everything (July 27)
  1. $3,200 for a Taxi out of Lebanon (July 21)
  1. Fake vacations (July 11)
  1. Afghanistanian child brides (July 9)
  1. Online Nigerian movie rentals (July 6)
  1. Lunch with Warren Buffett (July 2)

June 2006

  1. Teachers selling lectures, outlines, and study guides (June 30)
  1. Ten weirdest items sold on eBay (June 28)
  1. Buy out Bush (June 21)
  1. Wife leasing in India (June 20)
  1. Get paid to vacate a parking spot (June 16)
  1. Chinese restaraunts banned from serving sushi off the bodies of naked women (June 14)
  1. Insurance for immaculate conception, alien abduction, and sports disappointment (June 13)
  1. Betting markets in spelling bees (June 1)

May 2006

  1. Cell phone ringtones at frequencies only teenagers can hear (May 28)
  1. Future Social Security checks (May 24)
  1. Buy the right to write a page in a novel (May 18)
  1. $500+ khaki pants (May 17)
  1. New Zeland is NOT for sale (May 12)
  1. Betting on Taliban ambassador's admission to Yale (May 10)

April 2006

  1. Bag of junk (April 20)
  1. Virtual reality games your pets can play with and against you (April 17)
  1. Fragance enhanced movie theaters (April 16)
  1. Prom date rental sought (April 8)
  1. Missing markets? (April 5)
  1. Outsourcing surrogacy to India (April 4)

March 2006

  1. Larry Summers' half-eaten dinner roll (March 22)
  1. Flushable toddler urinals (March 21)
  1. Torso for $3,000 (March 17)
  1. Congressional bribe menu (March 1)

February 2006

  1. Exotic horse meat (February 26)
  1. Hasidic reggae (February 23)
  1. Soul rental (February 17)
  1. Exercise discipline (February 15)
  1. Magazines for everything (February 14)

January 2006

  1. Pay an athiest to attend mass daily (January 31)
  1. Excessively large foodstuffs (January 29)
  1. Optimal sleep alarm clock (January 27)
  1. How to hide things in public places (January 21)
  1. Kidney stones (January 18)
  1. Include incarcerated relatives in family vacation photos (January 8)

December 2005

  1. Breast paintings (December 22)
  1. Hymen reattachment surgery (December 15)
  1. Charity (December 9)
  1. Cell phones for dogs (December 7)

November 2005

  1. Air rights (November 30)
  1. Texas BBQ for Thanksgiving (November 24)
  1. Bollywood films (November 22)
  1. Funeral guests (November 16)
  1. Organic cigarettes (November 4)

October 2005

  1. Unclear: 404—dead link (October 18)
  1. Arabic version of the "Simpsons" (October 14)

September 2005

  1. Homeless advertising (September 26)
  1. Stephen King will kill you in an upcoming book (September 18)
  1. Kidnapping and humiliation (September 15)

August 2005

  1. Bottled air from Wales (August 31)
  1. Dutch "living library" (August 25)
  1. Fake wedding guests (August 24)
  1. Monsoon vacations (August 22)
  1. X3 accountability software (August 17)
  1. SUV carbon offsets (August 16)
  1. Wallpaper (August 1)

July 2005

  1. Garbage tours (July 27)
  1. Virtual sweatshops (July 24)
  1. Greeting cards for people having affairs (July 13)
  1. Used murder weapons and crime scene cleaners (July 12)
  1. Dancing lessons for dogs (July 11)
  1. Information via text messaging (July 10)
  1. Foreheads as billboards (July 2)

June 2005

  1. Pre-sale passwords (June 20)
  1. Equity in pop musicians (June 18)
  1. Pay to reveal bunny eater (June 15)
  1. Spray-on mud (June 11)
  1. Toilet bowl rice (June 6)
  1. Mosquito racket (June 6)
  1. Dr. Seuss meets Ayn Rand (June 4)
  1. Whose so vain? (June 3)
  1. Astronauts hair (June 1)

May 2005

  1. Rent-a-Son (May 25)
  1. Hufu: the healthy human flesh alternative (May 23)
  1. Payment with severed finger to settle a debt (May 18)
  1. Popemobile (May 7)
  1. Banana guards (May 5)
  1. Buy space for your article in scholarly journals (May 3)

April 2005

  1. Raves for deaf people (April 27)
  1. Papal betting markets (April 18)
  1. 70-85 year old prostitutes (April 11)
  1. The Whizzinator (April 3)

March 2005

  1. 15-year old horse manure (March 30)
  1. Supper blogging (March 29)
  1. German labor contracts (March 19)
  1. Donate to save a bunny's life (March 18)
  1. Deer feet (March 17)
  1. Bottled water for dogs and cats (March 12)
  1. Broadcasting phone calls into space (March 11)

February 2005

  1. Clean dorm rooms (February 28)
  1. Canine yarn (February 21)
  1. Candy blackmarkets in school (February 20)
  1. Cryogenics (February 15)
  1. Valentine's Day black markets in Saudi Arabia (February 14)
  1. Elvis memorabilia (February 12)
  1. Reservations for dinner on Valentine's Day (February 11)
  1. Name a monkey species (February 9)
  1. Discovering uncontacted native tribes (February 4)

January 2005

  1. Monkeys buying monkey porn (January 30)
  1. Party buddys (January 19)
  1. Clothes with tiny sensors & other electronics (January 16)

December 2004

  1. Women's laps (December 16)
  1. $300 to drop a class (December 15)
  1. Empty Tiffany's ring box (December 15)
  1. Blacklist cell phone numbers before heading out for a night on the town (December 1)

November 2004

  1. Pretend to be a political prisoner (November 20)
  1. Shoot at real animals online (November 19)
  1. Testicular implants for pets (November 15)
  1. Sex in-lieu of rent (November 13)

October 2004

  1. Election prediction market arbitrage (October 31)
  1. Bathroom attendants (October 31)
  1. Unwanted wedding invitations (October 21)
  1. Auctioning off cameo appearances in future novels (October 17)
  1. Wing Women (October 12)
  1. Arm-shaped pillows (October 8)
  1. Riot stones (October 7)
  1. Mismatched socks (October 4)

September 2004

  1. Loans to pay for breast elargements (September 23)
  1. Chechen terrorists bribe to fly (September 18)
  1. Celebrity body part & immaculate conception insurance (September 7)

August 2004

  1. Men with really big feet (August 18)
  1. Personalized postage stamps (August 12)
  1. Patent for paying people to watch commercials (August 4)
  1. Country music Olympic fundraiser (August 3)

July 2004

  1. Coffin alarms (in case of premature burial) (July 29)
  1. Iraqi stock market (July 20)
  1. Killing houseflys (July 16)
  1. Spring water with fluoride (July 11)
  1. Simulated dating (July 5)

June 2004

  1. Auctioning off virginity (June 24)
  1. Marital odds (June 17)
  1. Outsourcing Mass to India (June 14)
  1. Print-on-Demand copies of your favorite newspapers delivered to your hotel (June 6)

May 2004

  1. Hotels selling the accessories and furnishings in their rooms (May 29)
  1. North Korean wives for Chinese men (May 26)
  1. Dental appliance to help dieters eat less (May 20)
  1. Patents for everything (May 17)
  1. Market in predicting Google's eventual IPO price (May 17)
  1. Shopping cart as exercise equipment (May 15)
  1. British soldiers swap photos showing brutality against captive Iraqis (May 3)

April 2004

  1. Imaginary girlfriends (April 28)
  1. Web dating photo certifications and background checks (April 22)
  1. Erdos number (April 21)
  1. Pay for "sexual anxieties" diagnosis to avoid Italian military service (April 18)
  1. Bribe your way into some of the best US restaurants (April 11)
  1. Drive-in movie theater for snowmobiles (April 10)
  1. Authors auctioning off names of characters in forthcoming books (April 8)

March 2004

  1. Organizing peer groups using GPS tracking (March 11)
  1. Get paid to hear ads and receive telemarketing calls (March 10)
  1. Add background sounds to any incoming or outgoing call (March 7)
  1. Consensual sex consent forms (March 1)

February 2004

  1. Contest parking tickets online (February 20)
  1. Online break-up service (February 11)
  1. Personalized romance novels (February 6)
  1. Chinese students borrowing points to improve their test scores (February 6)
  1. Predictions (February 2)

January 2004

  1. Minimum price for an alibi for an adulterer's absence: $34 (January 17)

September 2003

  1. Programmable credit cards (September 24)