Friday, May 08, 2009

Friday quiz!

Clive Crook has been to a symposium on a forthcoming book by Matt Ridley, applying his profound knowledge of evolutionary biology to modern economics, and particularly to the connections between excess testostorone and financial risk-taking.

Q: why is this hilarious?

3 comments:

  1. Because he and his free-market economic ideology helped produce the first run on a British bank in over a century?

    Iain
    An Anarchist FAQ

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  2. Monbiot already had a column on this a while ago. http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/10/23/libertarians-are-the-true-social-parasites/

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