Category: Web/Tech

1. What if companies could run for political office?

2. Barkley Rosser sends in his referee report on the new Peter Chang restaurant.

3. Excellent post on Greece, politics, history, and economics.

4. Honneth's critique of Sloterdijk; the very thought of a Hansonian take on this makes me giggle.  In German, there is more here.

5. Stream of cliches.

6. Quantum dating market.

1. The culture that is Dutch.

2. Old people in Toyotas: the data, the truth. 

1. Rural Mayans on the "trolley problem."

2. Arnold Kling on the Johnson and Kwak book (send me a review copy!).  And here is Arnold on liberals and libertarians.

3. Markets in everything and here the Gnome-be-Gone.

4. A good point about Afghanistan.

5. Love motels in Taiwan.

1. Markets in everything: politically incorrect chess sets, such as "Chasidim vs. Franciscans."

2. Google, World Development Indicators.

3. Jetpack for $86,000.

4. George Selgin on central banks.

5. Dan Ariely's new book.

6. Bet real money on movies.

7. Republicans study game theory.

8. New NY bill would ban salt in restaurant food.

1. Silly chess sets (supposedly artistic).

2. Compare different pianists playing Schubert.

3. Are gay rights winning in Uganda?

4. Alex Ross lecture on when you should applaud.

5. John Nye on the New Deal.

6. Virginia to return government spending to 2006 levels.

1. The national debt.

2. Can jazz ever be cool again?

3. State tax oddities.

4. "Conservatism, if it means anything, is a resistance to ideology and the world of ideas ideology represents, whether that ideology is a function of the left or the right."  More here.

1. Markets in everything.

2. U.S. Memory Championship.

3. The MIT symposium on sports economics.

4. Ethnic mixes and divorce rates.

5. The real risk of driving a Toyota.

6. Best post so far on game theory and the health care votes to come.

1. The culture that is Virginia.

2. How well do hand sanitizers work?

3. How to steal lots of shoes, in Korea.

4. Bohlen-Pierce music.

5. Swiss reject lawyers for animals.

6. Short memoir of Gene Fama.

1. Via Chris F. Masse, Al Roth in video and Paul Milgrom (unviewed, but self-recomending).

2. Vero responds on a VAT.

3. China's coolest man?

4. Does calling a wine organic lower its price?

5. Paths forward for the Google Books settlement.

6. Should you ignore evidence from people you don't trust?

1. A rant against Japan.

2. Why we are not living in Western civilization (video).

3. Tim Harford's tips for writing non-fiction; I agree.

4. Contrarian claims about performance enhancers in baseball; caveat emptor.

5. Bastiat and Say on fiscal stimulus (though I don't think they would favor ARRA as a whole).

1. Tremendomeatatarianism.

2. High-risk pools as a reform.

3. Recent account of Haiti, moving.

4. Myths about Russian demographics.

5. Have virtual worlds peaked?

6. Wisdom from William Galston (though I don't like the headline).

7. Trade associations in everything.

1. Incentives still matter on the supply side.

2. Just-as-good medicine.

3. Bruce Bartlett criticizes spending caps.

4. Why is there no Jewish Narnia?

5. Will Yao Ming's baby be American and is that a betrayal?

6. Why did economic models fail to predict the medal count in this year's Olympics?

7. Some rules for graduate students; I mostly agree.

8. Graphing "Cowen."

1. What Michael Lewis reads.

2. The U.S. Postal Service is not efficient.

3. How to improve chat roulette.

4. How much does debt matter?

5. Canadians don't give much to the arts.

6. Statistical time travel.

1. Translating Ulysses into Finnish.

2. Trinidad singer Edward Cumberbatch, now on YouTube.

3. Does Chile already have more looting than Haiti?

4. A test for religious open-mindedness.

5. I love Kottke, and this photo, but I would call the post "How genetics doesn't work."