Sunday assorted links

1. “On average it takes a 30% increase in gdp to raise happiness by the amount that a year of war causes it to fall.”  (The Economist)

2. Larry Kotlikoff on Saez and Zucman (WSJ).  And Pearlstein on the same.  And John Cochrane on the same.

3. “Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov has started gene editing in eggs donated by women who can hear to learn how to allow some deaf couples to give birth to children without the genetic mutation that impairs hearing.

4. Good and bad signs for different kinds of Asian restaurants.

5. New Yorker profile of Gabriel Zucman.

6. Polyamory and rationalism.

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