Perfect timing and perfect antidote to a long miserable PNW Spring, videoblog of the start of the production of the Hobbit by Peter Jackson. Replete with Sir Ian sporting a playful cap. I hadn’t noticed but the cast also includes Bret McKenzie of the Flight of the Conchords, Brian Blessed as King Dain Ironfoot (typecasting a Dwarf King), and David Tennant as King Thranduil (typecasting again as an Elven King). It was a great Friday morning.
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Nice summary article on the maybe obvious point of interpretation, economics starts with ideology. I liked this post because it’s by an economist, stating what economics is really about and what the actual starting place of its practice must be: the stating of one’s bias and beliefs. 
The day began innocently enough. I was making breakfast for my son when on the radio an interview with the peripatetic Jane McGonigal played: “How To Save The World, One Video Game At A Time”: McGonigal has a book that I’ve not yet read, but from second hand knowledge she is from the serious games side of games. ARG‘s and the like. She claims that the pedagogic and timesink aspects of games can be exploited for real-world success. This seems to be mostly about consoles and MMO’s, but I expect McGonigal is including PDA and handhelds etc. [...] 
Sad news today of a disgraced economics professor giving his last words to a young student via email. Luckily, it’s an April Fool’s joke. Maybe unluckily the “Academic Choice” theory seems a logical extension of both social construction and public choice theory giving maybe a realistic approach for how to treat economists. Via Naked Capitalism. [...] 
I listened to a recent podcast from the BBC’s Radio 4 Analysis program on the ubiquitous and insidious growth of credit debt in our world: Radical Economics: escaping credit serfdom. Interesting that debt has become a matter of everydayness when so many of our ancestors worked to free themselves from unhealthy obligation. |
 
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