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Markets in *everything*, a continuing series
*Tenure*, the movie, starring Luke Wilson. Seriously. They are about to start shooting.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on March 18, 2008 at 01:08 PM in Film | Permalink
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Does not seem like it will appeal to the 98% of the population who neither knows nor cares about the tenure process. I'm up this year and the most frequent question I get from acquaintances is "why are you going up before you've been there ten years?"
Posted by: Aca Joe at Mar 18, 2008 1:52:07 PM
I've noticed a common hollywood formula is to take some obscure profession or hobby and make a movie about it, somewhat glamorizing and fictionalizing the real life process.
98% of the population won't know that it's not realistic.
Posted by: Andrew at Mar 18, 2008 2:19:26 PM
A veritable slogan for this blog is 'markets in everything'.
Yet, a few days ago you (quite rightly) drew the line at child pornography.
But doesn't it then follow - NOT markets in everything?
And then, we're just arguing about where to place the line, not whether or not there should be a line.
And why can't the argument against markets in child pornography be extended to other kinds of equally offensive markets?
There's a basic contradiction in the fundamental premise of this blog. Perhaps you'd like to discuss that.
Posted by: Stephen Downes at Mar 18, 2008 6:00:50 PM
@Stephen:
The short answer: There's a big difference between is and ought.
Posted by: US at Mar 19, 2008 1:36:00 AM
Markets for everything?- clearly assuming either non-zero transaction costs or psychic costs/benefits from the activity of marketing- there will be a market for any given market- i.e an implicit market causing problems of interference in the observed market. The problem with implicit markets- or with notions like meta-preferences- is that the resultant signal extraction problem (if you think about it) must be the dual of the constraints operating on the market for theories about the market- thus driving analysts to some Schelling focal point w.r.t otherwise arbitrary conventions whose effect is to equate the 'Real' with the 'Rational' in some silly Historicist fashion. In other words, it is the inexorable invisible hand of the market-for-markets which puts the blinkers on us and applyies the goad which has us bray out the same old idees recues which, more even than the mischief of its Messiahs, establishes Economics as a full fledged Religion.
Anyway, that's why Economic consultancies should immediately be granted tax exempt status.
Posted by: vivek iyer at Mar 24, 2008 5:04:38 AM
