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1. Good response to Krugman on China.

2. David Mamet's rules of drama.

3. Reason and Ron Bailey on second-best health care plans.

4. I didn't find most of these weird.

1. Rats can cooperative in the Prisoner's Dilemma.

2. The economics of OCLC; a dozen employees earn more than $200,000.

3. Population density facts.

4. Business model of Somali pirates.

5. Health care failures, by Patrick Ruffini.

1. I am sorry to see David Frum leave AEI.

2. Peter Chang leaves Charlottesville.

3. On the brighter side, maybe the world isn't ending right away after all.

4. Very good discussion of the "Siberian hominid" news break.

5. Ross Douthat's books list.

1. DSM-V quiz.

2. Beautiful new public library in Italy.

3. China sandstorms.

4. Markets in everything: pay girls to play video games with you.

5. The end of big government liberalism?

6. Mark Pauly on health care reform, via Austin Frakt.

7. Markets in everything: The Zaky.

1. The books which influenced Angus.

2. How will the health care bill affect the Amish?

3. Katja argues for doom; Robin agrees.  Boo-hoo.

4. Intact cells from 13th century brain.

5. Profile of Berkeley bloggers.

6. An AD-AS case for nominal gdp targeting.

7. My media diet.

8. Peter Chang flees Charlottesville.

1. Does Daylight Saving Time save energy?

2. Ivar Hagendoorn's very good books list.

3. Hospitals, Medicaid managed care stocks rise on House vote.

4. A typical health insurance subsidy: what it will look like.

5. Good interview with Judith Butler.

6. The weirdest vending machines in the world; a slide show is here.

1. Influences on Scott Sumner.

2. Via Chris F. Masse, interview with Guy Kawasaki.

3. The economics of a fundraising concert.

4. Markets in everything, signaling through lipstick edition.

5. Kieran Healy's book list.

6. The joy of indices.

7. The portfolio effect, a continuing series, this time on green consumers.

1. Critique of mirror neurons.

2. Can animals commit suicide?

3. What changes your life in Ghana?

4. Self-control in dogs.

5. Norms for cell-phone texting.

6. Canadians sleep more in recessions.

7. Anti-sweatshop campaigns: do they harm workers? (looks interesting but I have not read the paper).

1. Most influential books, chosen by Matt Yglesias.

2. How are prostitute networks different?

3. The influence of J.G. Ballard.

4. The evolution of fairness toward strangers, and here.  Important if true, from my hotel room I've just glanced at it but worth a read.  It's pro-Hayek and minimizes the influence of evolutionary biology, at least under one reading.

5. One proposal for pricing attention.

6. Jenny Davidson's book list.

7. Unhappy Yemen.

8. Will Wilkinson's book list, including the tale of his unfinished denunciation of me.

9. Webcast of Econblogger's conference, with Alex, Megan, Mark Thoma, others (not me).

1. OMB greenlights more awards and prizes.

2. Reading Uwe Johnson.

3. Game show of torture and Milgram.

4. Markets in everything: pre-owned cryogenic equipment.

5. Very good new Tony Judt interview (and more on Judt here).

1. The Swedish right.

2. The economy of Gaza.

3. Markets in everything.

4. The rational rejection of security advice, such as changing passwords.

5. Shamrock shortage in Ireland.

6. Some schools are allowing mixed-gender dorm rooms.

1. Where does foreign aid go?

2. The hardest logic puzzle ever posed?

3. The science of free-throw shooting.

4. Tony Judt on girls, sex, and marriage.

5. Old post by me, cited today by Brad DeLong.

6. Does pragmatism improve our lives?

7. Measuring the influence of Hayek.

8. German scholars preparing first critical edition of the Koran.

9. European mummies in the Chinese desert.