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Shrinkflation, Disqualiflation, and Depression and more

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Virginia Postrel
Jul 28, 2022
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Shrinkflation, Disqualiflation, and Depression and more

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Housekeepers’ union campaign against “disqualiflation” in hotel cleaning. My latest Bloomberg Opinion column is explained well in an excellent subhead (contrary to popular assumptions, writers don’t craft the headlines or subheads that appear on their work): “Packaging less stuff for the same price doesn’t fool consumers or economists. But diminishing quality imposes equally maddening extra costs that are almost impossible to measure.” Excerpt:

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