{"id":230,"date":"2018-10-08T17:16:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T21:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/?p=230"},"modified":"2018-11-09T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T19:37:17","slug":"eds-10-10-2018-the-economics-of-ridesharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/2018\/10\/08\/eds-10-10-2018-the-economics-of-ridesharing\/","title":{"rendered":"EDS 10\/10\/2018: The Economics of Ridesharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Our second economics discussion will happen this<strong> Wednesday, October 10th at 6pm in CAS B18<\/strong>. This week&#8217;s topic is the<strong>\u00a0economics of ridesharing. <\/strong>We will be talking about Uber, Lyft, taxis and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>how the earnings of drivers fall when the supply of drivers rises.<\/p>\n<p><span>Come share your opinion, apply your econ knowledge\u00a0to a real life situation, and make more friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can read this very\u00a0short article to prepare for the discussion: <a data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2018\/09\/24\/when-the-supply-of-uber-and-lyft-drivers-rises-their-earnings-fall\/\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2018\/09\/24\/when-the-supply-of-uber-and-lyft-drivers-rises-their-earnings-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When the Supply of Uber and Lyft Drivers Rises, Their Earnings\u00a0Fall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second economics discussion will happen this Wednesday, October 10th at 6pm in CAS B18. This week&#8217;s topic is the\u00a0economics of ridesharing. We will be talking about Uber, Lyft, taxis and\u00a0how the earnings of drivers fall when the supply of drivers rises. Come share your opinion, apply your econ knowledge\u00a0to a real life situation, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}