The Economics of Dress Codes... and Smoking Bans

Julian Sanchez | November 14, 2005

Tim Harford, author of the hot-off-the-presses new book The Undercover Economist, has a interesting examination of why it might have been economically rational for D.C.'s metropolitan club to turn away our own leather jacket–clad Nick Gillespie last week—and why the same economic logic makes one-size-fits-all smoking laws a bad idea.