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  "id": 15364701,
  "title": "Our fascination with screens, demand curves slope downward installment #1637",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/18/our-fascination-with-screens-demand-curves-slope-downward-installment",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-18T06:28:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Marginal Revolution",
    "slug": "marginal-revolution",
    "url": "https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/10/our-fascination-with-screens-demand-curves-slope-downward-installment-1637.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "What we find here is that the quality-adjusted screen time price index is down 39 per cent since 2000, but that change is overwhelmingly a function of improvements in quality, not declines in prices paid for devices, subscriptions and so on. So the steep rise in screen time over the past 20 years has led […] The post Our fascination with screens, demand curves slope downward installment #1637…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}