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Economics & Marginalia: February 23, 2024

Today, my son walked into one of my meetings to demand I dismantle one of his toy trucks (it’s touching how much faith he has in my non-existent facility with tools), and on being told I would do it after the meeting, declared that he would wait for me. He sat down by my chair and started howling at the top of his voice to render the meeting impossible to continue (fortunately, we were already wrapping up) and then happily toddled downstairs when I exited the Zoom call. It’s incredible how far a complete disregard for normal social norms will go towards getting you what you want; and depressing to see how this lesson has been taken on by political grifters the world around.

Fakes, forgeries and the meaning of meaning in our post-truth era

Not long after Eric Hebborn was murdered, an off-the-record conversation with the famed artist-turned-forger was published. On tape, Hebborn made explosive claims about his time as a student at the Royal Academy of Art in the 1950s, where he had been awarded a prestigious prize. Though a gifted draughtsman, he was a surprising choice, because the art of the day was all about high concepts, not realistic depictions. Drawing was an unfashionable business, so how had a mere draughtsman won the prize?

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