The song of the weekend is John and Taupin’s great “Rocket Man“. And although I like a lot Kate Bush’s version as well, nothing can ever compare to Bill Shatner’s theatrical rendition of this masterpiece (superb youtube old videoclip, with an introduction by Bernie Taupin).
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Quote of the week
Do not do unto others as you would expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
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My whereabouts
I’ll be less active with blogging these days since I am attending the Society of Labor Economists annual meeting (at Columbia University this year). I’ll present this (preliminary and incomplete; comments very welcome; check my website periodically for updated future versions).
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Problems of Interplanetary and Interstellar Trade. Indeed, somebody had to start researching on this topic, at some point :-). Here’s the part I like best in the concluding remarks: “Perhaps, the establishment of a solar system monetary union would permit the free flow of capital […]”
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Giuseppe Bertola on why offshoring and immigrant employment are good, using the Italian context.
A well deserved Pulitzer and pearls before lunch…
I must be the most ignorant person ever: I’ve only found out today (via Terry Tao) that this superb article by Gene Weingarten, “Pearls before breakfast“, likely the best I’ve ever read in the Washington Post, won a well deserved Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing about a month ago.
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