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Marginal Revolution Goes Avant-Garde
David Morris, New York City theater artist and long-time reader of MR, is one of the creators of Routine Hearing: Exercises for the Body Politic.
Exercises for the Body Politic moves to the beat of an original score featuring the luminaries of political oratory. From the golden oldies of Goldwater and McGovern to the modern sounds of Limbaugh and Moore, your headphones will set the stage for this auditory grand ballet. Enjoy a glass of wine, a game of cards and the company of your fellow citizens as one of HERE's favorite design teams—David Evans Morris & Juliet Chia—hit shuffle on the political soundtrack of 21st century.
The lastest installment of Exercises will feature selections from Tyler's paper Self-Deception as the Root of Political Failure. Alas, no selections from your truly but if Nixon going to China can become an opera I have high hopes for the musical, Believe in Pascal's Wager? Have I got a deal for you!
You can get tickets to Routine Hearing which plays Jan. 2-3 at the above link.
Addendum: Here are Tyler and I on An
Economic Theory of Avant-Garde and
Popular Art, or High and Low Culture (JSTOR link).
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on December 29, 2006 at 07:07 AM in The Arts | Permalink
Comments
On Tyler’s paper:
The tendency towards self-deception was one of the first major, and common human flaws that I remember observing when growing up. People tend to accuse and be suspicious of others, of actions and for behavior, that they personally would be likely to practice. That is, thieves think everyone steals, drug users think most people use drugs, adulterers think it is more common than it really is, etc.
Stated too broadly though, and Tyler’s paper comes up short.
I haven’t read the entire thing yet, though what I have finished so far, seems to imply that someone without a formal education in economics should always defer to the trained economist.
This implies however that formal training can somehow overcome the perfectly natural flaws in human nature, and that the econ prof is thus somehow immune to the effects of too zealous an ideology, a mediocre IQ, or of course, their own tendency to self-deception.
And so, since I’m not an economist, I should always defer to John Kenneth Galbraith?
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