→ 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.
Category: books
What I’ve been reading
I’ve started many books and haven’t finished yet most of them…, but slowly and steadily, mainly during my many & long forthcoming travels (NB: Transylvania, here I come!), I’ll get there…
Anyway: a book I’ve just finished is Nick Hornby’s “Fever Pitch” (wiki link; audio link with Hornby answering questions about the book).
→ Read more Digital Darwin
Here.
And here’s for instance the first edition of the Origin of Species (links to a PDF of about 90 MB; you can also listen to the audio version of the book in 21 .mp3
→ Read more Econlinks for 28-02-’08
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A very nice article about GMU’s Econ department. I love for instance the following bit, despite its capitalizing on stereotypes (but we love those sometimes :-)); so here’s Arnold Kling: My simple way of describing it is that at Chicago they say, ‘Markets work; let’s use markets.’
Real stakes in the US election
Here’s my favourite bit of the best essay I’ve read today:
→ Read moreThe reality is that democracy is a very blunt instrument, and in today’s environment we are choosing between ways of muddling through.