If you follow Marginal Revolution, you can stop reading. If not then allow me to direct you to the highly dubious Becker - Posner blog. They are two of the most phenomenal "exporters" of economic methodology, each applying rational choice models to previously non-economic fields.
Posner has blogged on Larry Lessig's site (see here), and it was by lending me Becker's The Economics of Life that Steve pushed me into applying to postgraduate study. I couldn't finish the book: "The Economics of Life" is grandiose masterbatory irrelevency - what about the "Life of Economics"????
Mr Sperlinger once asked me for an accessible, relevant treatise on "good economics".
That's what i'm trying to do now.
If this is true, we're all in for a real treat. If not, I told you so.
Addendum: I am a cock! I notice that the trackback for the blog is using Lessig's own URL, which convinces me of the genuine bona fide nature of this endeavour. Brits should be excited: these two are at the pinnacle of the profession.
Yeah, I can't read The Economics of Life anymore either. I am, after all, a reformed Libertarian...still, Becker and Posner will be very much worth reading. Also, good hype-generation with the "teaser"...
Posted by: SL | November 30, 2004 at 12:28 PM
Do you believe it? I'm a little suspicious
Posted by: AJE | November 30, 2004 at 04:51 PM