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Household spending is a key factor in personal and family financial planning, as well as policymaking to improve people's livelihoods. While the government's Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a mainstream indicator, it often fails to accurately reflect the daily living costs of the public. CPI has limitations, such as over-emphasising non-essential goods and services (e.g. Rental expenses and furniture), and people's subjective inflation perceptions tend to be higher than the actual data.

Household spending is a key factor in personal and family financial planning, as well as policymaking to improve people's livelihoods. While the government's Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a mainstream indicator, it often fails to accurately reflect the daily living costs of the public. CPI has limitations, such as over-emphasising non-essential goods and services (e.g. Rental expenses and furniture), and people's subjective inflation perceptions tend to be higher than the actual data.

Can money make the world go around? Do economic gains always drive people to make rational decisions? We have too little time for too much information and people usually rely on their intuition to make choices.

Can money make the world go around? Do economic gains always drive people to make rational decisions? We have too little time for too much information and people usually rely on their intuition to make choices.

When economists conduct research on certain topics, they often face challenges in collecting data from real-life situations, that meet the ideal conditions of a randomised controlled experiment. However, if randomised controlled groups exist in real-world scenarios, they would present valuable opportunities for study. Many hypotheses, such as the idea that intellectual property laws boost the opera industry can be proved in such analysis.

When economists conduct research on certain topics, they often face challenges in collecting data from real-life situations, that meet the ideal conditions of a randomised controlled experiment. However, if randomised controlled groups exist in real-world scenarios, they would present valuable opportunities for study. Many hypotheses, such as the idea that intellectual property laws boost the opera industry can be proved in such analysis.

我們習慣認為自己的行為是理性、合乎邏輯，而且是經深思熟慮的，但現實上，我們的行為往往是「不經大腦」的，有許多盲點，甚至受到誤導和操縱而不自知。

我們習慣認為自己的行為是理性、合乎邏輯，而且是經深思熟慮的，但現實上，我們的行為往往是「不經大腦」的，有許多盲點，甚至受到誤導和操縱而不自知。

前不久香港發生一宗命案，其駭人聽聞程度不下於任何經典驚慄片。才華滿溢、資金豐厚的電影製作人，不論如何絞盡腦汁，其創作不見得一定比真實世界奇異精采，很多時反而是從現實世界中找尋獨特的元素，經整理鋪陳後呈現於觀眾眼前。觀眾覺得可觀，往往因為不曾經歷的新鮮感而已，其實現實世界才是電影精采情節的泉源。經濟學家提出各種經濟理論，其貢獻在相當程度上也源於自身的實際經驗，或事後對實際經驗的總結。本文將分享一些現實生活的例子，以及經濟學家所作的檢視。