Feast More, Spend Less: The Most Affordable Thanksgiving in Four Decades
The time price of a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people has dropped 45.3 percent, from 3.22 hours in 1986 to 1.76 hours today.
Professor Gale L. Pooley teaches U.S. economic history at Utah Tech University. He is an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and a board member of HumanProgress.org.
The time price of a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people has dropped 45.3 percent, from 3.22 hours in 1986 to 1.76 hours today.
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Blog Post | Energy Consumption
Light abundance has increased by 100,435,912 percent since 1830.
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Compared to 1960, we can grow 250 percent more wheat on 9 percent more land, at an 85.7 percent lower time price.
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A decade of price-control misery
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The premier American brand has sold a trillion burgers.
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Blog Post | Cost of Material Goods
Furnish 4.4 rooms today for the time price of one in 1985.
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Blog Post | Labor & Employment
Office workers use 77.8 percent less energy and experience a 95.3 percent lower fatality rate than construction workers.
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Since 2000, US airfare time prices decreased by 49 percent while passenger enplanements grew by 51 percent.
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