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This erotic-stimuli-influencing-spending might be more serious than I thought (see my earlier short comment to Tyler Cowen’s erotics of investing– 2nd bullet point). Although the researchers admit that all their conclusions rely on the men faced with a decision to be taken in a second or so… Yeah, then it could be very true :-).
Category: quote
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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Econlinks today
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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.
Quote of the week
→ Read morePrima impresie spune o poveste spontana, in care de fapt se intretes propriile noastre viziuni cu ceea ce dorim sa vedem. A doua privire este mai atenta, ordonand detaliile dupa logica mediului in care ne-am format ochiul.
The prophet Jeremiah is alive and well and teaching economics at Harvard
This is the best article related in a way or another to Economics that I’ve read so far this week: Roy Weintraub reviewing Stephen Marglin’s new book “The Dismal Science. How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community”, for Science.
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