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The Fairer Sex
It’s been a great week for economics with plenty of macro issues in the news. Half term has also given me lots of time to think about the microeconomics of everyday life, inspired in part by reading Tim Harford’s The Logic of Life.
On Friday I rushed, fashionably late, into Rhyme Time at my local library. My daughter and I quickly joined in a rousing chorus of ‘The wheels on the bus’ and after a few lines I realised that my voice stood out, and not just because I am appalingly tone deaf; its defining characteristic was that it was probably at least two octaves lower than anyone else’s in the room. Of the thirty plus parents there, I was the only dad!
