1. Barry Eichengreen is on Twitter.
2. Germany's "literature houses."
3. Is some art simply too complicated?
4. Just give money to the poor.
6. Oezil the German.
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Two people who were for giving money directly to the poor through govt: Hayek and Milton Friedman.
#3, art is always about showing status – the more complex it is, the more it signals that the consumer is smart and high status enough to spend the hundreds of hours needed to appreciate it. Finnegans Wake or Elliot Carter demand a lifetime – perhaps too much except for academics who need them to show off their IQ.
3. It seems unlikely Joyce would have written Wake unless it appealed to his own sensibilities. There are certain types who seem to “get” Finnegan’s Wake. Kerouac was inspired by it in Desolation Angels and it’s hard to accuse Kerouac of over-complicating his own work. Zappa was a Boulez enthusiast. I suspect FW and Boulez can be appreciated only by autistic types whose aesthetic sensibilities intersect those of its author.
fwiw, the correct rendering in english would be oezil, not ozil. the umlaut means “add an e after”
Seems like there’s some parallel between complicated art and complicated modeling in economics.
It is telling that economists, in general, will not get angry (on average) when informed of this.
Telling of what?
Interesting article about whether some art might be too complicated for anyone to understand. How divine.
i am poor too,haha
In Business Week, Andy Grove talks about the handout he got when he was immigrant poor, about $4M, which he used with his partners to start Intel. He then points out that these days, the costs of a startup with the same job creating potential is about $4B because the factories are so much more expensive.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_28/b4186048358596.htm
Nora, James Joyce’s wife, did not try to read his work, but she understood
that she was his Muse (or at least one of the principal ones) and
therefore did not need to. But she said too that her husband’s works
sold too few copies and therefore must be good.
“Dubliners,” his collection of short stories, still has at least one foot
in reality, perhaps even both, but “Portrait of the Artist” begins the
process which grows stronger in “Ulysses,” written in stream-of-
consciousness, and culminates in the stratospheric “Finnegans Wake.” This last
I have not read and never shall.
“Özil the German” refuses to sing the national anthem before the game and chooses to pray instead. This has caused some uproar, which even somebody as uninformed about football as I am noticed.
This is incorrect. Residence in Germany was sufficient to gain citizenship before 1999.
The enactment of the new citizenship law was much more of a reaction to a wave of russian and eastern european immigrants, who rather dubiosly claimed German ancestry.
Citizenship applications by Turks have declined in recent years.
As always, the “paper of record” cannot be trusted to get even basic facts right in its coverage about non english speaking countries.
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