Why is it important to convince people that conferences are expensive? The real question for prospective attendees is not, are the organizers charging a reasonable price? but, is this worth the cost for me?
That would be true, except:
we may care about “fairness” of price-setting, or other non-economic motivations,
we may expect to be able to affect the price by objecting to it,
we may use reasonable pricing as a proxy for other forms of reasonableness.
Why is it important to convince people that conferences are expensive? The real question for prospective attendees is not, are the organizers charging a reasonable price? but, is this worth the cost for me?
That would be true, except:
we may care about “fairness” of price-setting, or other non-economic motivations,
we may expect to be able to affect the price by objecting to it,
we may use reasonable pricing as a proxy for other forms of reasonableness.