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Re: EXTEND music copyright?? What is the European Commission smoking?

adamski — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:53:03 -0000

Quite right, Bradiush. My buddy Scott has some similar thoughts:

http://www.informationoverlord.co.uk/?p=78

Re: Oxford University launches 2008 venture capital fund for own students

adamski — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:46:30 -0000

Minor point, but the turnaround at M&S is usually credited to Sir Stuart Rose, who has been Chief Executive since 2004. Sir Philip Green owns Arcadia and BHS, and despite trying several times to buy M&S in the past, has had nothing to do with their recent success.

The latter is largely due to me and Binnington buying huge amounts of Extremely Chocolatey Milk Chocolate Rounds in recent months, which drove impressive like-for-like sales in the food business Q4 2007.

Re: Absolutely astonishing

adamski — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:39:19 -0000

sick na good.

Re: Paradoxical lifestyles

adamski — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:39:09 -0000

I completely agree that behavioural economics is a really interesting field - moving beyond rational choice and beyond indicators like GDP per capita, when what is actually relevant is happiness/utility/satisfaction has to be the long term way forward....

...but I also think it's way too easy to get carried away with this kind of thing. For example, might not commuting time be correlated with age (young people more likely to live in towns rather than the commuter belt) or wealth (houses in prime locations), or some other underlying driver of happiness?

I'm probably doing the authors a disservice here, as they almost certainly made allowances for other variables, but my point is that as academically interesting as papers like this are for pointing out macro trends, they are a long way from being able to inform the micro decisions I make in my own life.