Joe Reifer - Words (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The infamous fur trapper scene from Deadman, with Iggy Pop and Billy Bob Thornton. A friend alerted me to this fascinating interview with Rudy Wurlitzer in Arthur Magazine where Wurlitzer and director Alex Cox reveal that Jim Jarmusch took many of the ideas for his 1995 film Deadman from a Wurlitzer script. The rest of the [...]
seriously excited! (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
Via Cara Phillips, I found this great slideshow of images from Damon Winter following Barack Obama on the campaign trail. (...)
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
How'd you like to pay 12 cents a gallon for gas?
Division of Labour (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
I'm having my principles students do Frank's "economic naturalist" assignment this fall and in preparation I came across this nice Robert Frank talk....
The Conscience of a Liberal (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Robert Frank, the author of Richistan, and Robert Frank, the author of Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class, are not the same person. Both are great books, all the same. Please place comments on today’s column here. No Tags
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Paul Krugman’s Friday column talks about levels of rich and middle class — a topic we’ve been playing with around here for a couple of days. Krugman includes this: The trouble with Mr. Warren’s question was that it seemed to imply that everyone except the poor belongs to one of these two categories: either you’re [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
BRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now, on view Sunday, September 14, 2008 to January 25, 2009. From the Boulevards of Paris to the Vertical Canyons of Beijing, Street Art Street Life examines the vanguard's fascination with the street for inspiration, subject matter, a stage, and even the raw materials of their art
Weiwen's religion blog (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Robert Frank, an economist writing for the NY Times , highlights the fact that government fuel subsidies encourage drivers to be more wasteful, and that every bit of waste costs the government giving the subsidy. A more appropriate venue to alleviate hardship for the poor would be to give them a tax cut (or a rebate, as is done in the US with the Earned Income Tax Credit). Malaysia has had to end or...
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
High school cheerleading accounted for 65.1 percent of all catastrophic sports injuries among high school females over the past 25 years. Here is the link, with a photo. Loyal MR readers will know that I am a strong and genuine...
Misleading Advertising Law (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Image via WikipediaThe New York Times has an interview with Cialdini, Goldstein, and Martin on their new book 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive.As...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Spire.com, a social networking site for the rich, has just raised $9 million in a first round of funding. Through articles and member recommendations, the site does a pretty good job of packaging “the good life.” Heck, I signed-up this afternoon, and I’m already feeling vicariously wealthy — golf, anyone? The Boston-based company isn’t the first [...]
Market Power (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Via Greg Mankiw comes this from Robert Frank on inequality: According to research by Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist, quoted in an article in the Washington Post, "being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less...
The Filter^ (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
I'm revising course material and want to do a better job of teaching price discrimination. Economicshelp.org outlines the Pigouvian triumverate: 1. First Degree Price Discrimination charging consumers the maximum price that they are willing to pay 2. Second Degree Price...
France24 (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Praised for his "eccentric and satirical eye", British photographer Martin Parr has been awarded the top prize at PhotoEspana, Spain's biggest international photography festival.
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
“..Over the past three decades, market-worshiping politicians and their corporate backers have engineered the most colossal redistribution of wealth in modern world history.. ..a redistribution from the bottom up..from working people to a tiny global elite. This special issue of The Nation exposes the widespread costs of this rising inequality and offers a blueprint on how to [...]
