Tuesday, June 10, 2008

congratulations ginny!!! :) you owe us lunch treat! wahaha :D :D :D

anyway, i just finished reading inner economist today. rushed through it on my sick day off at home, but i didnt particularly fancy it. either my ambitions of being an armchair economist have died, or the book did not particularly reveal things that "shock" or, for that matter, the book didnt answer the questions it claimed to set out to answer: "Use incentives to fall in love, survive your next meeting and motivate your dentist". The central message is, monetary incentives don't always work. Okay, I get that one... But it still doesn't tell me what specific incentives i can use to fall in love or motivate my dentist (hint: it probably isnt monetary).

although i must say, the book was very good at propping tyler cowen. you wonder in awe at his general knowledge (maybe part of the research done for the book) and his esoteric music and reading tastes, as well as his knack for "mexican outsider art", whatever that is. im a fan of www.marginalrevoultion.com, but this book kinda showed off a lot more about his esoteric and "high class" tastes than i'd liked it to. last point? i like the part on Singapore hawker food, certainly did it justice :)

Mrs Brightside at 9:44 pm

{xoxo}