<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/186917f8-49d7-4249-81b5-91519ec4a712/B2722CDF-E522-43A9-8AF5-FA870EDD1554/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=%27Discover+Your+Inner+Economist%27+by+Tyler+Cowen--+New+York+Magazine+Book+Review&expire=&urlID=23148641&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Freviews%2F34981%2F&partnerID=73272" href="http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=%27Discover+Your+Inner+Economist%27+by+Tyler+Cowen--+New+York+Magazine+Book+Review&expire=&urlID=23148641&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Freviews%2F34981%2F&partnerID=73272" style="font-size: 11px;">www.printthis.clickability.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=%27Discover+Your+Inner+Economist%27+by+Tyler+Cowen--+New+York+Magazine+Book+Review&expire=&urlID=23148641&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Freviews%2F34981%2F&partnerID=73272"><P><SPAN class="drop">I</SPAN>f you had to pick between dining out in Stockholm or Port-au-Prince, where would you go? Sweden being one of the richest countries on earth and Haiti being one of the poorest, the choice seems obvious. Bring on the reindeer meatballs!</P><P></P><P>Unwise, says Tyler Cowen, the author of <EM>Discover Your Inner Economist, </EM>and that’s not because he has anything against eating reindeer.</P><P></P><P>If the quality of food is the sole mission, Cowen argues, look for contrary indicators. “Iron bars on the windows,” he writes, “and barbed wire on the fences, however bad for the residents or your own safety, are both good signs for the food.” The magic ingredient, he elaborates, is extreme income inequality, which ensures a large reservoir of cheap labor to grow and prepare the food, as well as a sufficient number of rich people who, being rich, must eat well. Voilà, good food in armored establishments. So hold that reindeer; bring on the banane peze!</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B2722CDF-E522-43A9-8AF5-FA870EDD1554/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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