Thursday assorted links
1. Ed Coulson, an urban/housing economist at UC Irvine, now has a Jeopardy winning streak.
2.”We’re currently running a prize at Open Philanthropy (https://www.causeexplorationprizes.com) for people to suggest new cause areas for us to explore on the global health and wellbeing side. We’ve extended the deadline for submissions to August 11th, and we’d love to see as many people applying as possible!”
3. Who deserves a festschrift more than David Gordon?
4. How Wikipedia influences judicial decisions.
5. NYT covers Barbados at length. Parts are very good, but it no longer seems allowed to criticize Caribbean nations for making their own policy mistakes. A useful but in some ways deeply misleading article. At what level does the “censorship” enter? The incentives of the writer or the world view of the writer? I suspect it is the latter.