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Curse John - In 1774 Philip Fithian was reminiscing in his diary about his undergraduate days at Princeton when “they often practised mischief by parading bad women and burning Curse John.”
The Jerusalem Post pointed to a "novelty-seeking and risk-taking gene discovered in Israel" (see "International Papers" for ). Michael Kelly asks Washington Post readers why "we lard up the sorrow with this great and gross festival of national media blah-blah about Camelot and royalty and The Kennedy Curse."
If you bid rationally (lower), you won't win any auctions; if you bid what it takes to win auctions (higher), you'll lose money because of the winner's curse.
This is Beatty's curse: His political principles tell him to deplore gamesmanship, but gamesmanship may be what he understands best.
Economists have pointed out that if bidders were truly rational, they'd simply reduce their bids to correct for the winner's curse.