An interesting article in The Times about the ongoing political scandal in Romania. I agree with the part of “dizzying heights of absurdity“. The rest is not impartial. → Read more
How to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer
The best joke in weeks. I’ve heard parts of it before, but never the whole thing. Enjoy (you might want to study Physics- if you did not do that or are not doing that already- after this :-)):
This concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen: “Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer.”
→ Read more Prediction Markets: when in Romania?
I cannot but agree with the main idea of the recent statement on the prediction markets (you can download the PDF free of charge via SSRN, once you make an account with them), signed by a bunch of top economists, including 4 Nobelists.
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an excellent (wide-audience targeted) article on the upside of income inequality, by Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy. Greg Mankiw also writes about it (and singles out exactly the fragment I wanted to single out).
Movie scene of the week 6th to 12th of May ’07: Awe-stricken Salieri facing Mozart’s genius, in “Amadeus”
Milos Forman’s “Amadeus” is for now my absolute favourite (really and really my number 1!) movie of all times (I presented a while ago on this blog my current top 25).
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