Results for “assorted links”

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1. The influence of Bork on antitrust.

2. James Wood on Knausgaard and others.

3. The nature of Australian worker’s compensation.

4. Not a profile of Taleb.

5. When women dare to outearn men (pdf), and summary here.

1. The psychology of on-line reviews.

2. Has the rate of mass shootings actually increased?  And why is violence declining, yet overall gun violence on the rise?

3. 21 Brilliant British people problems.

4. Shrayana Bhattacharya and Lant Pritchett offer some skepticism about Indian cash transfers.

5. What is the North Korean internet like?

1. Prizes for Dubai drivers who do not commit traffic infractions, hat tip Yana.

2. The expiration of the US. assault weapons ban increased violence in Mexico.

3. How fragile are we?

4. Illinois re-confronts the Coasian problem.

5. There is structural unemployment in Chennai too, robot fortune teller.  Note the multiplicity of religions in the photo.  And note that Junior Khuppanna has excellent food from the interior of TN.

1. How many millionaires will Singapore have over time?

2. India will cap the prices of some essential drugs.

3. The Newfoundland obsession with bologna.

4. America is a violent country.

5. Pearlstein on right to work laws.

1. Adam Smith on medical education.

2. Why Japan is obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas.

3. Must Montreal dogs be fluent in two languages?

4. The year in volcanic activity.

5. Why is it hard to make robots?

1. These kitchen equipment guides always amaze me.

2. Why aren’t there more retractions in economics journals?

3. There is a new Claudio Borio paper.

4. From Hyderabad: he can’t decide if he loves the new fish-like structure or hates it.  That is from the excellent blog The View from Chennai.

5. Jodi Ettenberg photos and narrative from Vietnam.

1. Worry about average tax rates.

2. What will you learn if you read every page of an issue of The Economist?

3. Are “lefties” the biggest exaggerators?

4. The long-term effects of the Tse-Tse fly, and short NYT interview with me about reading.

5. Vastu Shastra tips for your main door.  And here is one consultancy, MIE.

1. Should Mo Yan be more political?

2. Chinese woman writes with both hands simultaneously in different languages.

3. Hollywood is making a movie about brain uploads, to star Johnny Depp, and here are many predictions about the future.

4. Will we end up free and wealthy but lonely?

5. Ravi Shankar on the hippies.

1. Erik Voeten with some remarks toward a theory of treaties.

2. Milton Friedman on the popularity of the Fed.

3. What V.S. Naipaul thinks of Jane Austen.

4. New paper on Albert Hirschman and the World Bank, and Rajiv Sethi on Hirschman.

5. Further skepticism on productivity increases in U.S. manufacturing.

6. Raj Chetty video lectures on taxes and redistribution, not viewed but self-recommending.

1. Division of labor is limited by the extent of the market, impala and Oxpeckers edition.

2. Paper towels vs. air dryers.

3. The switch to capitalism was not the main cause of Russia’s mortality crisis.

4. On-line medical consultation.

5. How to escape from North Korea and why you should.

1. Iris-scanning in the fight against Indian poverty.

2. Amazing Kreskin offers to fix the fiscal cliff.

3. An Edge talk with Philip Tetlock, and pre-registration for the forecasting website.  Forecasters are needed for his very important project.

4. David Warsh on Shapley and other stuff.

5. Some catfish kill pigeons, and how good were cavemen as animal artists?

1. The economics of crossword puzzles.

2. More Krugman on Asimov, and Robin Hanson gets one part of his dream come true on combinatorial prediction markets.

3. Good Josh Hendrickson post on fiscal policy.

4. How many Americans view the Gaza conflict.

5. Text messages direct to your contact lens.

6. The rise of the underground restaurant.

1. We should support rights for the Great Apes.

2. Good Greg Ip remarks on journalism and economics.

3. The cobra effect, and modern Florida and generalized.

4. Excerpts from an interview with me.

5. There is no great stagnation, soap bar edition.

6. Philip Tetlock update.

1. Profile of James C. Scott, including on anarchism but not just.

2. Sex in cheese.

3. Camille Paglia, on women she does and does not like.

4. Has government funding of science become too conservative?

5. Which sector, other than punditry, is benefiting from the “fiscal cliff” chatter?

6. The Economist picks books of the year.

1. Garett Jones and the role of Fannie and Freddie.

2. The Bloomberg best books of the year list.

3. Rogoff comments on the stagnationists, and are we running out of phosphate reserves?

4, MIE: precious friends become precious gems.

5. Christmas video about macro, will offend some of you.  Worth a view in any case!  By John Popola, and it considers Malthus on aggregate demand.

6. Outcompeting the driverless car (does the theory of comparative advantage apply to dogs?), caveat emptor.

7. Cass Sunstein is now on Twitter.