Category: Web/Tech

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.

1. Via Michelle Dawson, a paper with 54 co-authors.

2. Photo of a bird's stomach.

3. Excellent interview with Magnus Carlsen.

4. Good analysis of where the Euro is headed.

5. Measures of income and inequality should adjust for health insurance benefits.

6. Hate mail from third graders; can you guess the topic?

7. Why do gang wars last so long?

1. How much did the Irish government subsidize housing?

2. Service discrimination by race?  (Warning: Daily Mail story)

3. If taxes hurt less, would they be higher?

4. Africa's gift to Silicon Valley.

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.