There are big and hugely important issues to be addressed in the global economy; the least we can do is take them seriously. And stop pretending that being harsh on a coterie of banksters would be both necessary and sufficient to solve all our problems.responds to my post about consumer lending in Missouri by expressing skepticism that it's possible to lend to people with bad credit unless you do so at extremely high interest rates. She gives a number of reasons why this might be the case, all of which are entirely plausible.

The winning entry goes to the story of a girl hanging out in a room that has been decorated by a boy who is either going to grow up to be a famed biologist or a serial killer. It hilariously encapsulates that feeling we have on first dates when we have no idea who the person we're with really is. Falling in a love is a leap of faith.

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There are a couple of parallels: Ben Stein had a public gig at a respected institution (the New York Times), and he had to give up that gig when he started accepting money from the FreeScore.com. Similarly, if economists want to take lots of money from big corporations like banks or hedge funds or oil companies, then they should first consider the ethics of doing so, and how they will reflect on their academic institutions. There are similar conflicts in the life sciences, but it seems to me that the debates there are more out in the open. Economists don't even seem to like to talk about ethics, let alone actually adopt a formal code. Which is sad, but, given the incentives involved, understandable.I'm in Sofia today, where I gave a talk on Groupon at the . This post isn't the speech that I gave, which was much shorter and more conversational; the slides I used are . There's not much new in this post, for those who have been following what I've written on Groupon over the past few months; I basically wrote it to get a feel for how I wanted my speech to flow. But here you go anyway.

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