Wednesday assorted links

1. “…in contrast to funding agencies—scientists systematically prefer to fund projects with more reviewer dissensus. Rather than purely focusing on the first moment of the distribution of reviewer scores, they also value the second moment. Further, scientists with the greatest domain expertise on a proposal are more enthusiastic about dissensus, and while appetite for dissensus shrinks as budgets become tighter, it does not disappear completely.”  Link here.

2. Will AI change our memories?

3. Second-order effects of higher interest rates.

4. Wesley Clair Mitchell predicting the future of economic research.

5. Is it true that those who accuse other the most of “mercantilism” are in fact the most mercantilist themselves?  (not a link)

6. More Scott Sumner movie reviews.

7. “They promised us 140 characters, and what we got was flying cars.”