Is There a Boredom Theory in Economics?

Marki and her professor, george lowenstein, wondered if economics might have some explanation for why we get bored. They came up with what lowenstein calls the scarce capacity theory of boredom. The argument is that we're constantly doing a sort of cost benefit analysis of how to spend our mental energy. And so i think actually kids are, in a way, like little economists who are weighing the costs and benefits of what they're doing....