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01Measuring the economy with new instruments: scraped prices, card-spending trackers and satellite imageryFour old arguments explain why an economy resists being computed, and none of them have gone away. What computation did change is measurement — scraped prices, card records and satellite images that report what is happening weeks before the official numbers do.ArticlePrices & markets57 quotes · 1 source · 9 min10 Oct
02Personalised pricing software and the return of haggling, run from the seller's sideFrom the middle of the nineteenth century everyone paid the number on the tag. Pricing software is bringing the bazaar back — except this time the seller reads you, and you see nothing.ArticlePrices & markets48 quotes · 9 min3 Oct