1. Dubner describes the forthcoming revised edition of the book.
2. Commentary on the recent and apparently pro-market Swedish elections.
3. The World Chess championship match starts Saturday in Kalmykia, Europe’s only Buddhist republic. Here is one very good analysis of the players.
4. Hal Varian on the county-specific theory of American income inequality; the high-tech boom seems to play a big role.
On the Hal Varian article. When Jane Galt said she was going to do a series on income inequality I suggest one of the series address the question if rising income inequaltiy was an inherent part of the creative destruction process of new industries emerging.
Of course she hasn’t done the series yet but I still think it is a good research question.
I mean, seriously.
It’s a bit misleading to call Kalmykia a “republic”. It has that name, but it’s just another part of Russia, much like the “Jewish autonomous Republic” in siberia, but we’d not say that’s the second Jewish republic, or that Alabama is one of the few explicitly Christian States in the world.
Live coverage of the World Chess Championship
begins at 11:30 GMT (7:30am EDT) Tuesday,
September 23, 2006 on Chess Live Radio.
http://www.chess-live-radio.com/
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