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Let Stephen King kill you
In his upcoming book, that is, bid here at $20,000 or more. Here are other naming auctions in literature. Thanks to Matt Fulvio for the pointer. Here is my earlier post on this practice; read Alex also.
Addendum: While we are on the "markets in everything" topic, here is Steve Levitt on how to discourage protestors.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on September 18, 2005 at 07:43 AM in Books | Permalink
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