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Assorted links

1. How the Snickers bar has changed over time.

2. Correlation does not prove causation, Danish marriage edition.

3. Will spending caps work?, and more here from Matt.

4. Very good older piece from Fuchsia Dunlop, “Perplexing encounter with a gastro-nihilist.”

5. Bill Gates answers questions on Reddit.

6. Say law follies, by Scott Sumner.

7. Are we bending the health care cost curve?, by Annie Lowrey, and see this chart on hospital construction.

8. Brad DeLong has on-the-mark comments on the Ezra profile.

Assorted links

1. The KFC culture that is Japan, and Pizza Hut innovation from China.

2. Critical review of Banerjee and Duflo.

3. What really happened in the Anglo-Irish deal?

4. Competitive wood planing, and does the CBO believe in the great stagnation?

5. Do people swap genes more easily than folk tales?

6. Claims about micro-moments of positivity resonance.

7. Can intangibles explain the UK productivity puzzle?

Assorted links

1. Photos of depreciated capital.

2. Dress turns transparent when you get aroused (the link is not totally safe for work, though within that category fairly tame).

3. The culture that is Italy (video).

4. Discussion of Super Bowl lighting contingencies.

5. One anthropologist looks at Diamond and the early history of warfare.

6. George Saunders didn’t interest me much either.

7. Ryan Avent on the sequester.

Assorted links

1. Markets in everything, iPad edition.

2. Krugman further explains his views on Japan.

3. Derek Thompson’s skepticism about robots.  I say the correct view is not about “robots” putting people “out of work,” but rather how software and machine intelligence are restructuring relative wages, which in turn has subsequent implications for labor force participation rates.

4. How much healthier are the baby boomers?

5. Feynman’s restaurant problem.

6. How much consensus in the economics profession?

Assorted links

1. Why are there so many murders in Chicago?

2. Edward Luce in the FT on robots, on-line education, MRUniversity.com, and falling median income.

3. The economics of Netflix’s new $100 million show.

4. Print me a condo on the moon (speculative), and why name a brand after a retina?

5. People getting mad at Jared Diamond, and more here.  Mood affiliation aside, the facts are on Diamond’s side.

6. We overregulate and underregulate too much at the same time.