Technically Economics

About Technically Economics

Two economics PhD students, Cassidy Shubatt and Dominic Russel, try to convince each other that all kinds of things are technically economics. From Love Island to group chats to marble racing, almost anything could be economics... but should it? New episodes every other Monday. Follow us on Instagram: @TechnicallyEconomics (https://www.instagram.com/technicallyeconomics/)

Publisher

Cassidy Shubatt and Dominic Russel

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

11 Aug 2025

Latest episode

13 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 20 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Cults

   Host Dominic explores how cults function as economic systems in this interview with Cassidy.

2. 

   8 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Fan Fiction

   Host Cassidy explores how fan fiction operates as a form of economics with guest Dominic, revealing surprising insights into creative markets.

3. 

   11 May 2026

   Pickleball

   Dominic tries to convince Cassidy that pickleball is technically economics. Mentioned: “A New Product Growth for Model Consumer Durables (https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.15.5.215)” by Frank M. Bass “Valuing New Goods in a Model with Complementarity: Online Newspapers (https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.97.3.713)” by Matthew Gentzkow “What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (https://bookshop.org/p/books/what-money-can-t-buy-the-moral-limits-of-markets-michael-j-sandel/ca54658af9cd32a4?ean=9780374533656&next=t&next=t&source=IndieBound)” by Michael Sandel “Shattered Nerves, Sleepless Nights: Pickleball Noise Is Driving Everyone Nuts (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/sports/pickleball-noise-complaints-lawsuits.html)” by Andrew Keh “The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/06/27/the-economics-of-the-tennis-v-pickleball-contest)” “SFIA report confirms over 24 million Americans playing pickleball (https://pickleball.com/news/sfia-report-confirms-over-24-million-americans-playing-pickleball)”

Inside a recent episode

Cults

Published 13 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And in fact, the next thing I wanted to say is that we're going to be using the term in this broader sense in the episode, not making, for the most part, normative statements about cults, because I will be interchanging cult with sort of like other things, religions. Can we not make a normative statement about any cults? I feel like we can disavow some cults. Yeah, we can disavow. I'm willing to disavow Scientology, Dominic. What? That's... all right hopefully they're not listening i thought you were also gonna that's fair example if you go down that rabbit hole but i thought you were gonna go like i'm willing to disavow the manson family i feel like that would have been easier but hey that that too yeah there's actually multiple cults that i'm against personally i don't know about you but okay there's multiple that i'm against Is this going to be too controversial? […]

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