Date posted: February 26, 2008
Three Little Paintings
I don’t recall which painting first caught my eye. What I do know is that the moment I saw it I was moved. Unknowingly the painter has painted my portrait.
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Date posted: February 17, 2008
Waves, Codes and Derivatives
When you’re working with quantitative models of derivatives or look at the graph of a timeseries the underlying reality can fade into the background. But you should never forget that at the end of the day you’re dealing with real money, not numbers, equations or second order moments and that your model is just a stylized representation of the data.
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Date posted: February 15, 2008
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
If you read this you will probably already have heard something about 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days or perhaps even have seen it.
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Date posted: February 9, 2008
The Economics of Dowry and Brideprice
The following passage from What Is the What, Dave Eggers’ fictionalized account of the life of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the most notable books of 2007, offers an interesting window onto the economics of brideprice.
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Holland Animation Film festival 2008
As with every edition of the Holland Animation Film festival there were too many films. And also as with every edition the films ranged from hilarious, touching and stunning to boring, tedious and outright dreadful.
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I'm a cyborg is yet another highly intelligent movie by Park Chan-wook. It's also a visual treat and in its own special way profoundly moving.
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Supplementary material for my review of Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms; Paul Collier: The Bottom Billion; and Dani Rodrik: One Economics, Many Recipes.
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