tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471471289744825428.post2040674653726093341..comments2024-03-11T00:31:41.186-07:00Comments on The Oregon Economics Blog: Economist's Notebook: Are Holiday Catalogs Good for the Economy?Patrick Emersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17242234148546323374noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471471289744825428.post-50516518891437190172010-12-15T11:55:58.471-08:002010-12-15T11:55:58.471-08:00I use catalogchoice.com and I hardly receive any c...I use catalogchoice.com and I hardly receive any catalogs anymore. I can't believe that anything that uses that much paper to be a net positive.jessibeaucouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12654962877354651499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471471289744825428.post-61847070010194827902010-12-15T10:16:38.263-08:002010-12-15T10:16:38.263-08:00We accept an explicit trade of 8 minutes of market...We accept an explicit trade of 8 minutes of marketing for every 22 minutes of television programming. The exchange is crude and unwieldy, but it is a clear exchange which assigns a value to the disutility of television marketing. We also have many opportunities to bow out of that particular exchange and still get the same product through netflix, itunes, hulu, etc. The market for our time and attention is evolving rapidly in that arena.<br /><br />The catalog business doesn't offer any similar exchange, and we do not get the option of just turning off catalogs. Your disutility is mild, my disutility might be higher, but as long as the marketer is making money, on average, from the exchange, they are basically turning our collective disutility into their own profits. I need an opt-out system for my mailbox, or the ability to assign a cost to marketers for my time.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07168040746553019823noreply@blogger.com