![]() Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at /planetmoney. It was edited by Jess Jiang, engineered by James Willetts, and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. ![]() Today's show was produced by James Sneed and Nick Fountain with help from Emma Peaslee. And along the way, an economist and fellow buffet-lover will teach us his hyper-rational strategy for optimizing his buffet experience. Our mission? To feast ourselves on all the economics we can handle at the all-you-can-eat buffet. Today on the show, we're headed to the place where the modern buffet may have been born: Las Vegas. From classic concepts like adverse selection, sunk costs, diminishing marginal returns, to more exotic economic mysteries, like the flat rate pricing bias. ![]() Here at Planet Money we believe there's a lot of economics going on at the all-you-eat buffet, tucked in between the mountains of brisket and troughs of mashed potatoes. But you know where you can really see a lot of economic concepts in action? Buffets. An economic scavenger hunt at a Las Vegas all-you-can-eat buffet : Planet Money You might expect to find economic concepts in the pages of an economics textbook. ![]()
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