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I suppose this is good news, sort of

by  Tyler Cowen in

A court in Tanzania has sentenced a Kenyan accused of trying to sell an albino to 17 years in jail and a fine of more than $50,000 (£41,200).

Albino body parts are valued highly in parts of East Africa and many albinos have been enslaved and/or murdered as a result.  It is believed that since 2007 there have been 53 albino killings in Tanzania.  The full story is here and I thank Ashok Hariharan for the pointer.

File under "Thwarted Markets in Everything."

Assorted links

by  Tyler Cowen in

1. Blog of MIT Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, a very smart guy.

2. Video of Conan Doyle, talking about Sherlock Holmes and supernaturalism.

3. Markets in everything: ice cream truck for dogs.

4. Driverless vehicles from Italy to China?

5. Will eating green really help the environment?

6. Natasha's Twitter feed.

7. What do most people argue about in the car?

8. What spending cuts are the British preparing?

9. DeLong on Rogoff (progress in dialogue).

Bob Dylan *Radio Hour*

by  Tyler Cowen in

Also known as German markets in everything, or alternatively why oh why can't we have a better U.S. copyright law?

Remember when Bob Dylan was DJ for those XM satellite radio shows, spinning a melange of blues, folk songs, vaudeville, gospel, and general bizarreness, with generally American themes, in the process proving himself one of the world's great musical infovres?  Some of those shows are collected on CD, in Germany, vol. I, II, and III, four discs a box, twelve discs in total.  The Amazon.de listings are here (they will ship to the US), or in German stores for about six dollars a disc, thank you Greece.

I own thousands of CDs, but these are among the very best and the song selection compares favorably to other collections of American music.  The sound quality and transfers are first-rate.

Here is a Bach box, his major choral works and some of the major cantatas, MP3, and CD, 42 euros, 22 discs, John Eliot Gardiner conducting, these are some of the best recordings of the chosen pieces and even with shipping costs this is an extremely favorable purchase.

Have I mentioned there are many outrageous bargains in Berlin, not just my apartment?

For five or six euros, you can buy an excellent spaghetti bolognese, better than almost anything in WDC or Virginia.  Apartments are cheaper, you don't need a car, mineral water and good bread is cheaper, gelato is cheaper, and in most social circles you're not expected to dress extraordinarily well.  I'm not sure books are cheaper but they're not outrageously priced either, even many English-language editions.  It's a strange feeling to come to Europe and have most things be cheaper, which still is not the case in Paris.

Here Angus recommends five CDs for Germany, good picks but the Dylan and the Bach round out some Alvin Curran and some gospel in my living room.