No, it’s not an article in a top econ journal, it’s the season finale of Dexter. It’s permeated by the best of economics, philosophy, and psychology, with plotting worthy of Victor Hugo. If Immanuel Kant came back from the dead, learned writing style from George Orwell, and resolved to answer Ayn Rand on cable t.v., he would have written this show.
Dec 20 2006
Well, it shouldn't, explains Robin. Consider the foolish way that the world reacts to new fossils: Fossil hunters have found a winning formula for getting media attention: pretend to believe behavior X appeared around the time of the earliest known fossil evidence for X, and then feign surprise when an earlier fossil...
Dec 20 2006
I just made my life's final purchase from Tower Records. Perhaps it's insensitive to be pondering economic puzzles while my favorite store is on its deathbed, but I can't resist. Here goes: How come the prices for Rap/Hip-hop were slashed vastly more than those of every other genre of music? Back when other CDs ...
Dec 18 2006
No, it's not an article in a top econ journal, it's the season finale of Dexter. It's permeated by the best of economics, philosophy, and psychology, with plotting worthy of Victor Hugo. If Immanuel Kant came back from the dead, learned writing style from George Orwell, and resolved to answer Ayn Rand on cable t.v., ...
READER COMMENTS
fffff
Dec 18 2006 at 10:06am
The actuaries at my work are always talking about this show. I’ll check it out if it’s released on DVD.
Brad Hutchings
Dec 18 2006 at 1:53pm
ffffff- If you have premium cable, you can catch the whole season on Showtime on Demand.
The thing I absolutely loved about the story was that it pitted Dexter’s responsibility to his biological kin against his responsibility to the sister he grew up with in a way that made him choose definitively, and he chose his sister. How against the grain of pop culture is that? Despite The Eagles early 90’s screed “Get Over It”, apparently nobody did, and all adopted kids were supposed to find their birth parents and have wonderful relationships with them that they couldn’t get from adopted parents. Dexter resolves two decades of this nauseating meme in the final 10 minutes. And does it despite the claim that his bio brother might reasonably have on wanting to reconnect with Dexter.
But then, you’re still left with a single traumatic event determining the lives of two brothers. Yeah, we make big choices when we must, but we’re still moist robots. Can’t wait for next season!
RyanG
Dec 19 2006 at 9:32am
FYI: Dexter is actually based on a novel
dan
Dec 28 2006 at 1:13am
Bahahahahaha. An economist enjoying a show about a sociopath. Bahahaaaaahahaa.
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