The musical (re)treat for today is “Varjú” (“Crow”) by one of my favourite funk & acid jazz & psychedelic rock & drum n bass bands, the Hungarian group Másfél (wiki in Hungarian, official site).
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Econlinks for 06-12-’07
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very sad for this country’s people, but otherwise a very concrete first level econ lesson for everybody. One can only hope that any other government passes ‘introductory economics’ before experimenting with policies (samples of which, for the same country, were featuring on my blog a while ago as well)…
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female leaders and what comes and what doesn’t, with that (with further links to very interesting recent PDF articles within the text)
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from the ‘exotic entreneurship’ stories cycle, another example mentioned in Tyler Cowen’s very well written book, Discover Your Inner Economist (see also my previous example from there).
Funniest thing I’ve read today
…is about a “conversation with a slightly-lingual-in-two-languages toddler“. Via Andy’s blog. Enjoy (and try to stop laughing) :-). → Read more
Song of the day: “Kala”, by Yann Tiersen
THE perfect song for today is “Kala”, one of the pieces from the latest album of Yann Tiersen, Les Retrouvailles. About Tiersen, one of my very favourite musicians ever, I’ve written a lot on this blog already, e.g.
→ Read more Quote for week Nov 25th- Dec 1st ’07
To be reconciled to the social world, one must be able to see it as both reasonable and rational.
John Rawls, The Law of Peoples
Read the quote of the previous week.
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