Marx Reloaded

Medea Film will release a cultural documentary titled "Marx Reloaded" in 2011. Directed by Jason Barker and Alexandra Weltz, the 52 minute movie is trying to make sense of the recent global crisis by revisiting the ideas of the German philosopher Karl Marx. From the trailer:

Abruzzi Syndrome

Steve Rhoads, in his book The Economist's View of the World, tells the story of the Italian town of Abruzzi, which had a problem with too many vipers. To motivate citizens to kill vipers, the town fathers created a viper bounty to be paid for dead vipers. For every dead viper a certain amount of incentive was to be paid to the villagers.