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1. Tim Worstall has a Kickstarter book project.

2. How restaurants talk about their customers.

3. Can an entire Japanese firm switch to the English language? (also a story of flexible nominal wages)

4. The influence of Latin America on Tagalog (article is in Spanish), and I was wondering where all that Manila rain was going to go.

5. Was the Indian growth story any different? (pdf)

1. Update on the Irish economy.

2. Raise prices to keep coins, adventures in Gresham’s Law.

3. Daphne Koller TED talk on on-line education.

1. Philippine gunmakers.

2. More from Diamond, Acemoglu, and Robinson.

3. Olympic medal predictions.

4. The charcoal industry in Manila, a photo essay.

5. What is the future of drones?

1. The landscape of MOOC.

2. Overview of why the Romney tax plan doesn’t add up.

3. The business of Bond, flip the toggle to adjust for inflation.

4. China markets in everything, hire a prison proxy.

5. The speed of sound is too slow for Olympic athletes.

1. From Washington Monthly: monetary policy, gargoyles, and the emotions.  I say focus ruthlessly on substance and do your best to explore and present the limits and drawbacks of your own ideas and recommendations.  Years down the road — or sooner — one will end up wiser and better informed.  The reasoning in this article is an excuse to dismiss moderating or inconvenient ideas, or ideas which de-moralize a topic somewhat.

2. Wage stagnation isn’t due to a compositional shift.

3. Old Germans who die and leave their estates to Israel.

4. There is no great swimsuit stagnation.

5. Why are New Yorkers reviving taxidermy?

1. Ash and lightning above and Icelandic volcano, hat tip to Gordon.

2. More on the signaling of Iranian girls (good link).

3. Why are theater reviews embargoed?

4. Does cultural diversity limit trade?

5. Free new chapter from Tim Harford’s The Undercover Economist, the full book is here.

1. Chilli, military demand, poor Indian farmers, etc.

2. Will it be Amazon that delivers the death blow to newspapers?

3. Does seeing the doctor more often keep you out of the hospital?

4. The moral sentiments of controlling a drone.

5. The new debate on interest on reserves.

6. Evan Soltas on what happened in the early 1970s.

1. Shortage of doctors could worsen with health law.

2. Appreciation of Dream of the Red Chamber.

3. Is algebra necessary?, response here, and the Dickens-Caplan exchange on poverty.

4. Tavi Gevinson update.

5. Which world records get shattered?

1. The culture that is Japan.

2. Chongqing video for Karl Marx.

3. A short history of toilet paper, and there is no great stagnation.

4. What are the rates of tax evasion on various Greek islands?

5. You have to start a company to graduate.

1. The ice cream market in Afghanistan; “”Security is not a concern when selling ice-cream”…

2. English phrases common only to India.

3. How to play in someone else’s band.

4. Is modern pop music boring?

5. Beijing to set up art freeport.

1. Why is UK employment up and output down?

2. Genetics vs. paleoanthropology?

3. Price inflation and stock returns (pdf), and here, and here, and most recently here; “There is a consistent lack of positive relation between stock returns and inflation in most of the countries.”  I am urging a) a bit of caution, and b) engagement with the literature on this topic.  I do favor a more expansionary monetary policy, but I see the balance of evidence as different from how it is frequently portrayed in the blogosphere.

4. New archery gold medal winner is legally blind, and here.

1. A decentralist defense of the minimum wage?

2. MIE: restaurants that will serve your dog (as customer).

3. Progress in athletic performance.

4. Can poor teachers learn to become good ones?

5. New Fuchsia Dunlop cookbook due February 2013, pre-order here.

6. A real copy of Austria in China.

1. Does money make us write better?

2. Is peak oil dead?

3. Interview with Enrico Moretti.

4. Ngram viewer for “Risk Management,” via Andrew Schroeder.

5. Banerjee on the National Food Security Bill.

1. Adam Gurri’s thoughts on the great stagnation.

2. Dan Ariely’s column is now a regular feature in the WSJ, here is installment two.  You can ask Dan questions at [email protected].

3. The African School of Economics.

4. The Mark Regnerus controversy.

5. Ungated version of Indonesians immigrating to Australian jails.

1. Herbert Vogel, RIP.

2. Pay teachers their bonus in advance, and threaten to take it back.

3. Oprah in India.

4. A result on inattentional deafness.

5. Should we regulate herbalists?

6. Behavioral politics.