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posted by Ben Witherington | 8:15am Tuesday January 5, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/opinion/03bono.html

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Rick

posted January 5, 2010 at 10:54 am

Wow, you are well versed in a wide variety of subject matters and your commentary is adroit and interesting.
My thought on economists is this: good economists are a dime a dozen, great economists are a dollar a dozen and an economists who actually knows what he is doing and talking about is priceless!!
My list if I may suggest it would be quite comparable but I would include clean water resources for much of the impoverished world and HIV/Aids vaccine research and vaccine storage under non-refrigerated conditions. I would also include Malaria treatment and research.
My favorite though is this, if we can put a man on the moon surely we can get flash on an iPhone!! Just kidding of course.

Another Rick

posted January 5, 2010 at 2:39 pm

Apparently not all are excited by his thoughts.
From the BBC:
“The editorial drew sharp criticism, both on its economic merits and for the suggestion of net content policing…In a move that drew significant criticism, Bono went on to suggest that the feasibility of tracking down file-sharers had already been proven…Several commentators assailed both the logic of net monitoring and the economic arguments of the essay, pointing out that U2 topped 2009′s list of top-grossing live acts…”Bono has missed that even a totalitarian government…can’t effectively control net-content,” tweeted Cory Doctorow, a blogger and journalist noted for his study of file-sharing policy.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8439200.stm