{"id":194,"date":"2003-10-10T05:27:15","date_gmt":"2003-10-09T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=194"},"modified":"2003-10-10T05:27:15","modified_gmt":"2003-10-09T19:27:15","slug":"economics-is-so-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/10\/economics-is-so-interesting","title":{"rendered":"Economics is so interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0284978\/\">Cypher<\/a> was a fun movie, twisty and a little noir, with some suspense and revulsion and action and sexual tension and everything. The only problem with it was a strange mis-step in the script: a couple of scenes were about incredibly boring lectures at conferences, and while they at least weren&#8217;t so out of touch to try setting it at a Linux conference, one of their topics was enthralling enough to make me wish they could&#8217;ve drawn out that scene just a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, central banks and monetary policy, so thrilling.<\/p>\n<p>Also intriguing is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/972966.asp?cp1=1\">this article<\/a> on experimental economics. This is the theory that was behind the &#8220;market in terror&#8221; that got shot down by knee-jerk ignoramuses not too long ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>IN ONE EXPERIMENT they create minimarkets, with real cash rewards, that allow employees to bet on future sales and revenue. So far these internal futures markets have done a better job of forecasting than polls of top executives. The disruptive implications for the corporate pecking order, and not only at Hewlett-Packard, arent lost on anyone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other news, did you know that Governor Schwarzenegger has <a href=\"http:\/\/ktla.trb.com\/news\/local\/cl-et-bates22aug22,0,7916.story?coll=ktla-home-1\">an economics degree<\/a> and an honorary doctorate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cypher was a fun movie, twisty and a little noir, with some suspense and revulsion and action and sexual tension and everything. The only problem with it was a strange mis-step in the script: a couple of scenes were about incredibly boring lectures at conferences, and while they at least weren&#8217;t so out of touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}