I cannot but agree with the main idea of the recent statement on the prediction markets (you can download the PDF free of charge via SSRN, once you make an account with them), signed by a bunch of top economists, including 4 Nobelists.
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Econlinks for 13-05-’07
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an excellent (wide-audience targeted) article on the upside of income inequality, by Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy. Greg Mankiw also writes about it (and singles out exactly the fragment I wanted to single out).
Movie scene of the week 6th to 12th of May ’07: Awe-stricken Salieri facing Mozart’s genius, in “Amadeus”
Milos Forman’s “Amadeus” is for now my absolute favourite (really and really my number 1!) movie of all times (I presented a while ago on this blog my current top 25).
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Ceea ce mă nelinişteşte este usurinţa cu care anormalitatea capată în viaţa noastră o aparenţă de normalitate. Odată mai mult, îmi spun că important nu este ce face istoria din noi, important este ce facem noi cu ceea ce face istoria din noi.
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…with a one phrase short characterization for each of them. But before that, I certainly recommend these books to you, they really say a lot about (the style of) their famous American authors.
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