Greetings Economists, Agreed. On Oct 14, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
The Academy Awards are in many ways a popularity contest.
Doyle; However, that probably also means popularity has something to do with human well being. Is it people get the attention they need? Some of them seem to crave a lot of it. One could turn that on it's head and say that for everyone plenty of social attention of the right kind is an environment one could thrive in. That's an important value that movies sell in the market place. The main or feature character is some sort of every wo/man who we'd all sort of like to be right next to. Doyle
