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1. Charity.

2. The cut in government spending after World War II.

3. Hail the rare variants!

4. Nerd econ T-shirts.

1. God and country.

2. Markets in everything, Pee Wee Herman edition.

3. Markets in everything, Jeff Koons skin care products edition.

4. Theories about how the UK times paywall might work.

5. The seven most powerful new economists?

1. File under "failed symbolisms."

2. The economics of gated newspaper content.

3. Martin Feldstein is skeptical about QEII.

4. Tanker gas, rule the skies.

5. A strange Soviet story.

6. When are people most and least likely to break up, a study using Facebook data.

1. How digital reports get out of North Korea.

2. Good but brutal analysis of Bruce Springsteen.

3. The swing voter's curse.

4. Is this election information or war?

5. Dunkin Donuts abolishes the penny, sort of.

6. Once Upon a Title.

7. Keynes vs. Hayek, rap part II.

1. H.G. Wells and Adam Smith.

2. LSE denies it is privatizing.

3. The culture that is Washington.

4. Dutch author Harry Mulisch passes away; his The Discovery of Heaven is still worth reading.

5. This year's UChicago job market candidate packet.  

6. The origins of cap-and-trade in economic thought, namely Thomas Crocker.

7. Height, genes, and IQ.

You can do them on the new www.blekko.com search engine.  For instance here is "Tyler Cowen/libertarian," which I believe mines libertarian sites for the results.  Here is "Tyler Cowen/liberal" and "Tyler Cowen/conservative."

Here are many articles about Blekko.  By the way, MR itself counts as a libertarian site in their schema.

1. George Starostin's music reviews.

2. Mount Everest now wired for internet and cell phone access.

3. Examples of North Korean painting.

4. Via Chris F. Masse, David Hockney is painting on the iPad.

1. Critique of Stiglitz on gene patenting; interesting but caveat emptor.

2. Hi-tech rents.

3. Horses in Iceland (photos).

4. The horror of Dan Drezner.

1. How the phone book changed the world.

2. "[Bears] are pretty quick learners."

3. Pissarides on QE2; he is a skeptic.

4. "Where are they"?  I really want to know.

5. IMF economist Atish Rex Ghosh publishes popular novel.

6. Paris vs. New York.

7. Expenditure cascades.

1. Worldometer.

2. Reasons for abolishing the corporate income tax.

3. Ridley Scott's 1980s deficit commercial.

4. Which books do prisoners request?

5. New theories of ideology.

6. The culture that is Manhattan.

7. Practical jokes for bees.

1. Hayek talking to Hazlett.

2. What is her equilibrium marriage outcome? (short video)

3. Wine loopholes.

4. Early voting may limit turnout.

5. Paul Simon on Stephen Sondheim and songwriting.

5. Are we producing too many lawyers?

1. The blockbuster crane can lift a 40-ton block from 120 feet away.

2. UK economy growing faster than expected.

3. Calorie-neutral foods.

4. A way to extend your life that works.

5. Hayek on environmental regulation.

6. What do negative real interest rates mean?

1. The scariest sentence Ezra Klein read yesterday as of 2 p.m. or so.

2. Chris Blattman's links.

3. Measuring the relative popularity of different phrases.

4. Portfolio diversification, baseball style.

5. What to read after Vargas Llosa.

6. Popularizing the Myerson-Satterthwaite theorem.

7. Where are the biggest imbalances?

8. Landsburg popularizes Arrow.