→ Read moreYou probably know, even if you have never tasted them, that Lafite is synonymous with elegance, Mouton with power. Lafite is fragrant and ethereal, Mouton loud and fleshy. Lafite is Leonardo to Mouton’s Michelangelo.
Month: February 2009
London my love
My whereabouts: overlooking the Thames from the Royal Festival Hall. Rachmaninov, Mozart and Strauss tonight. Presented a paper a couple of hours ago, here. Very interesting workshop.
What is better than being in the academe?
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NYU Stern business school economists on the crisis, pinning down the real causes much to the same factors as Caballero did (1st bullet point). The book they advertise will certainly be widely read.
Broccoli, pornography, and Kant
Very interesting and well done Hoover Institute review by Mary Eberstadt, “Is Food the New Sex?“, though my feeling is that Economics would have way better tools to address the questions raised here than Philosophy, Kantian categorical imperative notwithstanding…
Thanks to Fred for the link!
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No matter what fans of the old Zabranjeno Pušenje think of their rather recent facelift, i.e. the Kusturica & No Smoking Orchestra, I simply love their music (inter alia, they created the soundtrack for “Crna macka, beli macor”, one of my all time favourite movies).
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