By most measures (e.g., formal training, income, what I do with most of my time) I am first a professional economist. However, I have also found myself participating in other arenas. This has often come with some success. This is good for me.
The endogeneity? Well, as an economist, I am all too aware of the ultimate depravity that lies within each of us. I observe it in my own patterns of behaviour. In an attempt to explain and predict behaviour, I build models on the assumption that agents are selfishly motivated. Further, explaining behaviour well (i.e., the goal of any practicing economist) requires a keen intuition about what motivates mankind.
Reading Ecclesiastes with a friend, he made the astute observation that the arts may represent the one area of my life in which I am not heavily oppressed by the realization that "the more knowledge, the more grief." While some will argue that investing in the arts may be to walk the same path of meaninglessness that Solomon laments, it can often seem less obvious when I'm in the middle of it. Thus, into it I go.
Oh yes... everything is for sale. That said, you can do almost everything you see here yourself, which might be good for you. Send me an quick
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