I missed this at the time, but I see that Tyler Cowen has reviewed George A Romero’s latest:
Land of the Dead is an excellent movie if you would enjoy a synthesis of cinematic Marxism, Mexican "Day of the Dead" folk religion, unmitigated cannibalistic gore, a critique of U.S. immigration policies, allusions to necrophilia (with the corpse as rapist), and a complete unwillingness to invert the usual racial and ethnic cliches.
Yes, I would enjoy all of those things. Max Sawicky is also a zombie movie fan, interestingly enough. So is Brad deLong, from whom I snaffled the link.
Question of the day: why do economists like cannibal zombies? Romero’s zombies eat, wander around and, according to Dawn of the Dead, shop. There are no quirks in their behaviour that make it difficult to predict statistically. They ate the living flesh of human beings yesterday and they will do the same today. Their expressed preferences are stable. They are rational actors. After all, if you have an ungovernable hunger for human flesh then eating people is rational. They don’t let an economist down.
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