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markets in everything edition: The Economist presents the black market for corpse brides in China; the truly nasty problem is that it comes with some scary incentives, given the scarcity of bridal corpses…
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1028 is the number of US economists that signed the recent petition against the (expected) Congress protectionist moves (link with the Dems general race-to-the-bottom economic policies that I was recently blogging about). The same number of US economists signed a very similar petition, against President Hoover’s trade policies, just before The Great Depression- I guess you know then how succesful that petition was… Via Greg Mankiw.
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talking about incentives: why would one have sex with a prostitute? Well, here’s something I would call a decent (pretty honest?) answer: “I visited a prostitute for one obvious, practical reason and another less so: I’m sick of lying to women. Being single and in my 30s, I find it increasingly difficult to justify the lies and manipulation involved in having a sexual relationship with women who I’m not in love with.” Read more.
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It did take him 36 years, but the former QUEEN guitarist still handed in his PhD dissertation before me … though his is in astronomy, piece of cake in other words :-). In any case, it remains to be established whether Brian May’s comparative advantage lies in music or in scientific research…
