Tag: cognition

  • Confounding the confusopolies

    A while back I wrote about [intlink id=”1000″ type=”post”]Optus’s pricing structure[/intlink], but the economists have already been over this ground. Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) apparently coined the term “confusopoly” to describe a situation where companies avoid competing on price by making their prices too confusing to compare. (I don’t have Adams’ book The Dilbert…