About
About the Writer
My name is Christian and I am The Ticket Economist. I take joy in writing about the interesting yet under examined area of ticket resale (a.k.a. ticket scalping). I used to hate ticket scalpers and the practice of scalping until I applied the age old lesson ‘keep your friends close and your enemies closer’ to scalpers. Following this I became interested in figuring out whether scalping was really good or bad. Decision: before the Internet, it was bad, now it is good. If you follow the writings on this site you will eventually understand why (I am not crazy).
Briefly, I am not an economist. I earned a social sciences degree from a small liberal arts college in the Boston area. From 2006 to 2007 I researched and wrote a thesis paper examining the economics of ticket scalping on the internet with the exceptionally patient guidance of an economist at Harvard Business School. When I am not writing about ticket stuff and purporting to know a lot about buying tickets, I run a small technology company that has nothing to do with event ticketing. I like going to lots of concerts, drinking red wine, long walks on the beach and big dogs.
About this Blog
Writings on this blog should cover ticket scalping, ticket resale, translating academic babble into terms people like you and I can understand. In addition I will take frequent opportunity to diss TicketMaster. The primary reason for this is they are a bumbling, thoughtless company that charges too much for a service that aggravates millions of people. It is also possible I do not like them because they would not contribute data to my research. I will let the reader judge the merits of my diggs on TM.
I can be contacted by email at this address: ticketguru at ticketeconomist.com