mardi 10 mai 2011

The invisible manicure of the market

There are 12,000 yellow cabs in New York, according to our guidebook – that’s one for every 667 people (which would be a squeeze). Curiously, on the basis of our highly scientific survey, there are approximately 540 nail bars on Manhattan island (one for every 7,556 women, to be gender-discriminatory), and about 200 psychics and fortune tellers (only one for every 40,000 people). Yet all of the cabs are full, and all the nail bars empty. So who’s palm-reading the invisible hand of the market…?

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