Tuesday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen April 30, 2019 at 11:59 am

2. Bryan Caplan reviews *Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero*.

3. Why did the great cathedrals take so long to build?

4. Ross Douthat on Trump’s Fed pick (NYT). Endorses the idea of Ramesh Ponnuru, Karl Smith, Scott Sumner or David Beckworth.

5. “Contrary to popular accounts, this study finds that cross-national diffusion [of Google searches] is surprisingly rare—and seldom U.S. led—but occurs through a multichannel network with many different centers.” And here is a picture.