Econlinks for 06-12-’07

  • from the ‘exotic entreneurship’ stories cycle, another example mentioned in Tyler Cowen’s very well written book, Discover Your Inner Economist (see also my previous example from there). Today: “the crying bar” (since I have some relatives that own a bar in Romania, this might be particularly of interest as business strategy for them; it’s high time we copied the Chinese:-)):

” The truly regretful in the Chinese city of Nanjing can visit a “crying bar”. There’s a sofa, some tables, and a great deal of tissue paper. For about $6 an hour, customers can sit and cry. The owner, one Luo Jun, claimed he hit upon the idea from customers of a previous bar. They wanted to cry, but they had no venue for this desire. The crying bar solves their problem by making the show of maudlin emotion socially respectable and indeed socially expected. I hope I don’t see you there”

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