Misreadings and readings

When the following post from Mark Thoma came up in my RSS feed:

Reality Pricks Corn Ethanol's Bubble

for some reason I first parsed "Corn" as the verb in the sentence. I don't know quite why my brain responded that way...I am not sure what corning would be, and as for a "reality prick"?

A few other links before I go out for the evening:

• Mark's contribution to the Lucas roundtable at the Economist (do click through to see the other articles, including Tyler Cowen who seems to be getting good at identifying a nice balance point at the fulcrum of many economic debates)
• Richard Thaler's FT article (one of many on the EMH in the last few weeks)
• Another EMH discussion - excerpted from John Quiggin's forthcoming book - at Crooked Timber
• What looks like a fascinating book by Kenneth Arrow (h/t Paul Krugman)
• The "Cripes" growth model from Worthwhile Canadian Initiative. A very neat idea and entertainingly written but I think it misses some countervailing pressures which act against growth, more or less assuming that the tendency towards size must always dominate
• I thought I would have more comments to make on this FT article, What is the point of economists? But I don't find myself with much to say. I liked Paul de Grauwe's contribution.
• Me quoted by Christopher Swann at Reuters
• When I try to view this image in Google Chrome, and it can't find the NYTimes server, it does its usual clever trick of trying to parse the URL into a search query in Google. Perhaps Google has some new Irish programmers: it interprets "freakonomics" as "Freak O'Nomics"

Have a lovely evening, no doubt I'll speak to you tomorrow.