Tuesday assorted links by Tyler Cowen September 24, 2019 at 12:03 pm 1. Who vouches for you? 2. “Instead, it [this data set] demonstrates a negative thermostatic effect: increases in democracy depress democratic mood, while decreases cheer it. Moreover, it is increases in the liberal, counter-majoritarian aspects of democracy, not the majoritarian, electoral aspects that provoke this backlash from citizens.” 3. In Finland business pushing for a minimum wage, labor unions opposing it. 4. John Plender at the FT reviews *Big Business: Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero*. 5. The history of artificial currency units (Libra-relevant).