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*Interstellar* - Marginal REVOLUTION

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A negative productivity shock hits the global economy, and various bad consequences ensue, including The Idea Trap. Behavioral factors exacerbate the course of events. Some degree of mean reversion ensues, to specify that degree would involve spoilers. OLG models remain relevant, indeed more relevant than most others are willing to believe. The rest is detail. I am often skeptical of Christopher Nolan movies for lacking heart, but I enjoyed this one more than I expected to. It would have been better, however, if no character had been allowed to articulate any propositions of physics. While watching, it's fun to play "Which Heinlein story is this bit riffing on?" Time for the Stars, Farmer in the Sky, Universe, lots more ... I kept wondering if the casting of two actresses with the same Bob Hope-style nose, Ann Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, is supposed to set up in the sequel some kind of creepy Late Heinlein-style man-with-time-machine-marries-his-own-grandmother plot twist? If B

A negative productivity shock hits the global economy, and various bad consequences ensue, including The Idea Trap . Behavioral factors exacerbate the course of events. Some degree of mean reversion ensues, to specify that degree would involve spoilers. OLG models remain relevant, indeed more relevant than most others are willing to believe. The rest is detail. I am often skeptical of Christopher Nolan movies for lacking heart, but I enjoyed this one more than I expected to. It would have been better, however, if no character had been allowed to articulate any propositions of physics. 59 Comme

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