1. Keynes-Hayek rap video with Chinese subtitles.
2. The essential Rachel Strohm recommends development books.
3. Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project hits #1.
4. Credible sources report that JHabermas is fake. Even more credible, note JH reports his email address is not available for the public.
5. Haitians are targeting aid to women.
6. The quest for university rankings favors the biosciences (and experimental economics?)
7. Educated women marry well these days.
8. Writing haiku, using the random movements of sheep.
“In the 1950s, a lot of women thought they needed to marry right away,” Coontz said. “Real wages were rising so quickly that men in their 20s could afford to marry early. But they didn’t want a woman who was their equal; they wanted a woman who looked up to the man. Men needed and wanted someone who knew less.”
Wow.
3. I have a happiness project which is much more down-to-earth.
Re 5: I suspect that the much stronger social safety net for women (in bad situations and in government transfers, women and children first) is a much greater source of inequality than most people suspect.
Tyler’s pal Roissy and the rest of the Game blogosphere are going to have a hard time explaining the findings about educated women and marriage.
I know what would have made me really happy. President John Edwards. That would have been a blast.
The smartest women don’t marry at all.
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