October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
October 11, 2009
Balan's Challenge
October 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
October 9, 2009
Not From The Onion
October 9, 2009
Thoughts on a Second Stimulus
Judging from the trailer, it seems the protagonist doesn't find economics to be a particularly fulfilling profession. He seems a rather dismal scientist until he takes up the bongos. Still, world music fan that I am, I can see that.
James Coburn in "The Internecine Project" is an econ professor, I think; he's at least an economist of some sort. He's also a former spy who has just been offered a plum government job.
However, before he can take the job he needs to kills some people who know too much about his past. His approach is to try to get them to kill each other. Very game-theoretic...
The father of Lorenzo of "Lorenzo's Oil" was (is?) a World Bank economist (though his brainwave there was in the field of biochemistry!) Played by Nick Nolte.
Strictly speaking he is a mathematician, but: "A Beautiful Mind", anyone?
The trailer opens with the Econ Prof character saying "I haven't done any real work in a very long time."
Maybe he's been reading this blog.
Look at who they have lined up to do the Freakonomics movie: Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room), and Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight).
Maybe they'll get Michael Moore in there too and interviews with Krugman.
Doubt it'll have anything related to Masonomics. That's the movie I want to see.
IIUC the movie is pro-immigration, perhaps even pro-illegal-immigration, and against bigoted nativism. So it should work against at least one of the four prejudices Caplan identified.
I find the trailers pretty funny actually. The economics prof seems to be a little bored with his life. It also seems to be another lame movie that economic freaks will either love or hate it.
Get Henry Spearman of Marshall Jevons fame on the screen I say.... far and away the most plausible guy this side of Russ Robert's star crossed econ teacher.