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Ken Rogoff says that we might be “better red than dead” in the long run. I doubt most Central-Eastern Europeans would feel any close to comfortable with that. And that despite that the Vikings (the present-day ones) are rather reddish and pretty well still.
Category: sex
The King of Bongo Bong
I am quite surprised to realize that I knew next to nothing about bonobos until recently, while an absolute bonobo frenzy seems to have been going on for quite a while out there, stretching far beyond scientific curiosity.
→ Read more Econlinks for 03-08-’07
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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).
Cherchez la (les) femme(s)
This recent article in “Psychology Today” is not a bad research summary, despite that it has been written by social scientists other than economists :-). A user’s manual on the evolutionary perspective applied to human nature, targeting a very general audience (and therefore, perhaps unavoidably, plagued by sensationalism; fortunately, the compromise does not appear to be critical).
→ Read more Funniest moment of the week. No, wait, of the month!
Lovely Nicole is emailing me this link. And she thinks she’s really “got it now”, she believes she finally “understands all about men”, she’s convinced she’s just had her Eureka!
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