Freakonomics

[no_intentions]

This is definitely the greatest thing ever.
i posted this on my blog too.

The New York Times Magazine has a new Freakonomics column, and this time, it's about monkeys learning the rules of monetary exchange.

Honestly, this is one of the greatest things I've ever read. (But then again, as I've admitted before, I'm not that well read.) There is a

Comments

[hardrockward]

that's amazing, i bet that guy is really happy that economics makes him able to play with monkeys all day. i bet most psychologists are too. i especially like the accompanying picture and i would really like to know what steps he took on monkey prostitution. but i wish he had described their height in terms of feet rather than children. who the eff knows how tall a one year old is? parents! not me.

i just foiled a boy's hookup plan by passing out. passive aggression is great!!!

[no_intentions]

ahahaha.
is not showering passive agression? because i think thats another viable escape plan, one i've considered recently, and i think it might actually be aggressive, or at least it wouldve been to my roommate.
but, in econ-speak
thats an externality, doesn't figure into my costs, and, like a powerplant giving a city cancer, i just can't give a shit.