Category: Web/Tech

1. Markets in everything: The Twitter Opera, from Covent Garden.

2. IP norms and stand-up comedy, and a comment.

3. Book covers that were not meant to be.

4. The importance of the NYC subway.

5. Chris Masse sends me a long McKinsey study on the economics of prizes.

1. Does Sylt have the world's most expensive Haus?

2. Why Michael Foody likes Twitter.

3. Aesop was smart, so are crows.

4. Bank of Japan counts brothels to gauge economy.

5. Listen to Robert Reich (though I would change the framing a bit).

6. My new Bloggingheads.TV, on human neurodiversity and Create Your Own Economy, with Will Wilkinson (leave your comments on that site).

1. Greg Clark fears the machines.

2. Can the health care fight be won?

3. The cover for SuperFreakonomics.

4. Waffle House weirdness (via Craig Newmark). 

5. History of Times New Roman.

1. The artistry of the aggregator.

2. Podcast, me speaking with Colin Marshall, mostly about the new world of culture.

3. For new technology, is it the progression of the inevitable?

4. Trying to supply private unemployment insurance.

5. My response to Robert Lucas; broader collection of responses here.

1. More on David Wessel's book on the Fed.

2. In defense of Goldman Sachs.

3. Rose Wilder Lane and her mother.

4. Markets in everything: A poet/lawyer has
started a consulting group to help writers with their
applications/portfolios to creative writing MFA/PhD programs.  Here is one negative reaction, here is more on the dispute.

5. G.A. Cohen has passed away.

1. Heterogeneous benefits from medical interventions, a new paper by William Evans and Craig Garthwaite.

2. Why your spleen is important.

3.The culture that is Japan: ramen robots.

4. A countercyclical asset, right in the restaurant itself.

5. Brad Setser update.

Could digital books could produce [a] class of "pro readers" so insightful you pay to download their notes?

That's a tweet from Andrew Hazlett.

I enjoyed this article, here is an excerpt:

"If you have been writing to someone 'Best' this and 'Best' that, and
you get an e-mail that is a little colder, a little hostile, and they
sign 'Sincerely,' that does mean things aren't so good," Schwalbe says.
" 'Sincerely' is the one that says, 'There's a problem here.' "

And, one may well wonder, does "Cordially" ever mean anything other than "My hostility is only thinly veiled"?

And when, e-mail-wise, is it too early for "Love"? Does "Fondly"
ever belong in business? Is "Cheers" too mock-Brit? Too alcoholic?

Fondly,

Tyler

1. Twittergraphy, based on the history of the telegraph and message condensation.

2. Dawn of Discovery, a new economics game.

3. Thoughts on the evolution of blogging.

4. Test your grit.

5. Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future — Chris Mooney's new book — is now out.

6. Six economists on why we should not audit the Fed.

1. Doubts on cash for clunkers.

2. Stanley Lebergott passes away at 93.

3. Lobbying strategy: give us money or we will kill the gorilla.

4. How many people are killed by cows?  "…All but one of the victims died from head or chest injuries; the last
died after a cow knocked him down and a syringe in his pocket injected
him with an antibiotic meant for the cow. In at least one case the
animal attacked from behind, when the person wasn’t looking. Older men
with arthritis and hearing aids have the highest risk of being injured
by livestock, the report says, probably because they don’t hear the
animals charging and can’t move fast enough to get out of the way."

1. The Braess paradox and the Patrick Ewing theory.

2. Life expectancy by region of U.S.

3. Italy tries to make amends to Japanese tourist.

4. Art as a blog.

5. Why are manhole covers round?

1. Motley Fool podcast, by me.

2. Sean Wilentz on Lincoln.

3. Chess players play the "beauty contest" game.

4. The Robot Gamelan Orchestra.

5. Markets in everything, a new use for pigeon blood, the link is safe for work but not for everybody.

6. Which public health interventions work?

1. Top ten books in international economic history?

2. Slovakian review of Create Your Own Economy.

3. Eric Falkenstein on high-frequency trading.

4. Cronenberg to film DeLillo's Cosmopolis.

5. Surprising facts about best-selling authors; yes Sidney Sheldon is the same guy behind I Dream of Jeannie.

1. Me on Reason.TV.

2. Nicholson Baker whinges about Kindle.

3. North Korean beer commercial.

4. An intellectual journey with many stops (one of Brad DeLong's best posts).

5. Extending the "all you can eat" concept, and yet the law intervenes.  Or, "the culture that is Germany."

6. The Women's Leadership Fund, a new investment strategy.

7. More patently false claims about China.

8. Via Kottke, cats play Arnold Schoenberg's Op.11; I loved this one.

1. Being overweight as a function of region.

2. Coffee shortage in Venezuela.

3. Laura Miller on drugs; she remains one of my favorite current writers.

4. Berlin Philharmonic on-line concerts.

5. Why doesn't Moore's Law apply everywhere?