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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
Assorted links
1. Why the Anglo deal isn’t so great.
2. The booklogs of Zeynep Dilli.
3. Why KFC is finding it difficult to expand in Africa, and new link is here.
4. The best #Geithnerbooktitles.
5. Is Japanese recovery across 2000-2007 a puzzle? (My try at resolution would be to cite rising exports, and not think that “net exports” is the category which matters.)
Assorted links
1. Virgil Storr’s Understanding the Culture of Markets, and Les Miserables ROK Air Force Parody (video).
2. Buy a ten-minute phone call with Cedric Ceballos (MIE).
3. What are we learning from measuring basketball performance with data-tracking cameras?
5. 8,000 people still can speak Texas German (with audio sample).
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?
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.
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?
Assorted links
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.
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Assorted links
1. Markets in everything (whale vomit).
2. North Carolina’s new bookkeeper.
3. Canadian questions about penny death.
4. Should you swing at the first pitch?
5. Career development webcasts for graduate students, from IHS.
6. Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on China.
7. The culture that is Japan, and another tale here.
Assorted links
1. Were some of those massive early American mounds built in only ninety days?
2. David Brooks on immigration.
3. I loved the movie, but Jed Perl is right about Ai WeiWei as an artist.
4. Thomas Edsall on the hidden prosperity of the poor.
5. The Romanian campaign to attract British immigrants, with more here.