Tuesday assorted links
1. “Novels, when they work, use lies to tell the truth. The information marketplace, battling for an audience, tends, more and more, to transform intolerable truths into novelistic, riveting, enjoyable lies.” From Elena Ferrante.
3. Health care cross subsidies.
4. Ancestral characteristics of modern populations.
5. The economics of postcards.
7. Management advice improved firm performance, unless it was being received by an MBA.