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2. New critique of Woodford and ngdp targeting, from Gavyn Davies and others.
3. Fish fraud, and excellent material on Iranian hyperinflation.
4. Some of the maple syrup is seized, and the policy uncertainty costs of horse nationalism.
5. There is no great stagnation (the ostrich pillow), and Thiel and Kasparov and Rogoff and Shuttleworth will debate.
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1. Three frank questions about your research.
2. NYU Stern School now has some class macro materials on-line, and some short Jeff Ely videos on microeconomics.
3. The backlash against foodies, and the Swiss are at the Ricardian margin with cows. No SMS in Romansch? But is it art?
4. The new approach of Jeffrey Sachs and the UN to sustainable development.
5. Pakistan in the past, with photos.
6. My earlier post on how to improve the Presidential debates.
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1. “A woman who lost her ear grew a second one on her arm…”
2. Where do Indian billionaires get their wealth?
3. Mathematics at Google (recommended).
4. The divorce of Paul Romer and Honduras.
5. The French grape-picking robot.
6. “Tyler is trying to sphincter us,” and Joshua Gans at Forbes covers MRU.
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1. The reality vs. the rhetoric, multiple lessons in this one.
2. John Fahey documentary (trailer) on the way (Kickstarter funded), and on YouTube here is Fahey’s Poor Boy.
3. Stephanie Coontz tries to rebut claims of male decline (though I don’t think she quite confronts the “matching model” being used here).
4. The economics of video games.
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1. “Warum schon die deutsche Einheit ein Fehler war,” from the excellent Wolfgang Münchau.
2. The Daily Mail on whether economics and finance students have more sex. Guess which major offers and indeed creates (supposedly) the most promiscuous students? The least promiscuous are majors in philosophy, education, and earth sciences, or so we are told. Caveat emptor.
3. Lady Gaga markets in everything very negative restaurant review.
4. A more optimistic measurement of Spanish deposit flight.
5. Jazz-singing robots, and the electronic implants that dissolve inside your body.
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1. What Emma Thompson likes to read.
2. is there a poet for romney?
3. The sad tale of infrastructure in Valencia.
4. Beijing’s dangerous game, and the economics behind the islands dispute.
5. Felix Salmon encounters Joseph Stiglitz and theology.
6. New Chronicle story of neuroeconomics, and there is no great stagnation.
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1. There is no great stagnation (video).
2. Update on the French economy (there is a great stagnation).
3. Interesting findings on poverty, mobility, and happiness.
4. Martin Wolf on the UK productivity and output puzzles.