8.5/10. It is the wonderful plot and its two central characters (Georg, the writer, and the Wiesel, the Stasi Agent) which are the key to this brilliant film.
Trust Us We’re Experts (subtitled: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future), by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.
I haven’t yet read all of this but a couple of interesting items that caught my eye.
The Independence InstituteMany years ago when I first got interested in the Microsoft Antitrust case I remember [...]
7.5/10 The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert. Read during my trip to the IIOC. What makes this good (or rather what raises it above the pot-boiler) is precisely those elements that are not science fiction, in particular the examination of different forms of awareness and their affect on our interpretation of the effects of modernity.
This weekend I’ve been at the International Industrial Organisation Conference (IIOC) in Savannah, Georgia. I presented the latest version of Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-Up Problem and provided discussant comments on Richard Gilbert and Michael Katz’s paper on the Efficient Division of Profit for Complex Technologies. In addition I include [...]
Friedrich Hayek, p35, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism, 1988:
Just to illustrate how great out ignorance of the optimum forms of delimitation of various rights remains – despite our confidence in the indispensability of the general institution of several property – a few remarks about one particuilar form of property may be made.
[...]import readline readline.write_history_file(‘my_history.py’)
5/10. Nice visuals and a promising start but the too many ill-thought-through plot twists seriously undermine the interest of this latest Danny Boyle outing into the realms of scifi.
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