FTC examines tricky world of online tickets

Washington, D.C. (June 18, 2019) -- Who would pay five times the face value of a theater ticket and call it fair? An economist, that’s who. Specifically, Harvard professor Gregory Mankiw, who in 2016 wrote an article calling himself “happy” to have paid the equivalent of the monthly rent of a one-bedroom apartment in northwest Washington, DC, for a last-minute seat at Hamilton....

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