{"id":7003,"date":"2009-02-19T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T21:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=7003"},"modified":"2012-02-20T20:38:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T01:38:32","slug":"beer-consumption-and-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/19\/beer-consumption-and-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Consumption and the Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Silver, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2009\/02\/breaking-beer-no-longer-recession-proof.html\">FiveThirtyEight.com<\/a>, points out that whereas sales of beer have generally been relatively unaffected by economic conditions, the current financial situation led to a rather dramatic decrease in beer sales in late 2008:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7004 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/beer4.png\" alt=\"beer4\" width=\"400\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/beer4.png 400w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/beer4-300x254.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any sociological point here. I just think it&#8217;s interesting, and since I thought so, I thought I&#8217;d make you look at it too. Nate Silver (who I have a bit of a geek crush on) hazards a few theories (in particular, perhaps people are substituting cheaper beers for more expensive ones, meaning they&#8217;re drinking as much or more, but spending less); it&#8217;s worth checking his post out.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, absolutely no point to this post other than &#8220;Huh. Look at that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Silver, over at FiveThirtyEight.com, points out that whereas sales of beer have generally been relatively unaffected by economic conditions, the current financial situation led to a rather dramatic decrease in beer sales in late 2008: I don&#8217;t have any sociological point here. I just think it&#8217;s interesting, and since I thought so, I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[229,36,12498,212],"class_list":["post-7003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consumption","tag-economics","tag-economics-great-recession","tag-alcohol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7003"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45184,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7003\/revisions\/45184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}