O poeta é um fingidor.
Finge tão completamente
Que chega a fingir que é dor
A dor que deveras sente.
E os que lêem o que escreve,
Na dor lida sentem bem,
Não as duas que ele teve,
Mas só a que eles não têm.
→ Read more Month: January 2007
Gift Giving III: David Friedman’s explanations
This post by David Friedman on the gift giving topic (why people give gifts when simply giving cash instead appears to be the most efficient choice in most cases) is very interesting, hence I add his two explanations to the signalling hypothesis by Greg Mankiw, with the “wild self” connotation by Alex Tabarrok (however it appears that Tabarrok’s wild self ran into trouble subsequently…that’s what happens when you’ve got both a wild self and a wife).
→ Read more Markets in everything, everywhere, anytime: inflation in Tahiti, XVIIIth century
The best post I’ve read today is Bernard Salanié’s “L’inflation chez les nobles sauvages” , on the dynamics of a particular business relationship between Captain Cook’s sailors and the female population of Tahiti, around 1770.
→ Read more Confessions in the blogoshere
Here’s a well written confession on Violent Acres that all those of you who wrote (a hell lot of) ineffective love letters anytime during your lifetime might want to read. Of course this does not concern such heart-throb types as myself.
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This is the final proof that markets function everywhere and in everything. I have blogged before about auctioning favourite restaurant meals and about the free market for beers, but this Aussie beats all that: he sells you a new life (well, obviously his life- the only one he can auction- with all its current advantages and drawbacks, though he concedes that some ‘inherited’ features can be altered in the future, such as the fact that you’d have to start as vegetarian…).
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