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1. More on Milton Friedman and the Great Depression.

2. Claims about textbook electrodynamics, and its possible contradiction with Einstein’s theory, which I do not understand.

3. I actually want one of these.

4. Most consecutive yoga positions on a motorcycle.

5. Daytime raves, the culture that is Sweden, hat tip Caleb.

1. Time on An Economist Gets Lunch, and indoor food trucks.

2. The culture that is Japan.

3. Protestors will destroy GM crops and GM research, it seems.

4. “…cockroaches are actually highly social creatures…”

5. There is no great stagnation.

6. Paul Krugman on austerity alternatives.

1. One constructive suggestion for the eurozone; there should be more of this.  This is an actual situation requiring actual solutions, not a pond for fighting ideological battles.

2. My favorite Desmond Dekker compilation, and the fiscal effects of the Federal Reserve (significant).

3. Ask Cowen anything (on food), via Andrew Sullivan.

4. Recapturing the Friedmans.

5. Karl Smith on the UK.

6. The rate of U.S. household formation seems to be rising again.

7. Will this be the most debated book of the year?

1. The second blog post of Garett Jones.

2. Arnold Kling on the growth of government.

3. Acemoglu and Robinson respond to Fukuyama, and a response to me on venture capital.

4. Granny clouds for Indian schoolchildren.

5. USA Today reviews An Economist Gets Lunch.

1. Scott Sumner on his economic method (with a passing mention of ngdp).

2. Do French kids snack?

3. How much does deleveraging matter?: a U.S.-UK comparison.  And is the UK price behavior just due to the VAT?

4. Man’s best friend?  Maybe Argentina can export these dogs to Spain soon, and what’s all this about the Michael Jensen/Werner Erhard connection?

5. Is the health care cost curve finally bending?

1. From the Swiss anti-immigration movement.

2. Caplan on Cowen on government growth.

3. Interfluidity on the UK, and a response from Richard Williamson, who notes the UK has not really started deleveraging, and from him yet some more.

4. Why does the caste system continue to survive in India?

5. Observations on whether or not you should finish books.

1. Expressive driverless cars.

2. Open letter to Peter Beinart.

3. Burgess reviews a book on Kripke.

4. More Neal Stephenson on innovation.

5. The handstand in the water, and the flip and hoops shot, best is the slow motion take, and finally high wind in Bilbao, do you really need to see the Guggenheim?

1. Brooks on the new Jim Manzi book.

2. Mehrling on the new White book.

1. Travel dating.

2. Markets in everything the culture that is Japan.

3. Polygamy price discrimination.

4. What does a highly leveraged university look like?

5. ZMP chickens?

1. Eight things he learned reading The Economist.

2. Economist J. Barkley Rosser has a very unusual review of my recent book.

3. Wilkinson on Gray on Haidt, also read Gray on Haidt.

4. Markets in everything, the demand for concealed carry wear.

5. Economists on health care licensing, and on the other side stranded cities and an argument for airline reregulation.

1. Is this a golden age for inventors?  And what is the asteroid-mining business plan?

2. Is this a golden age of Hunger Games econometrics?

3. Should gamblers be made to stand?

4. “The fundamental question is: “Why is government’s share of the voluntary donations market so damn small?” “, more here.  Furthermore “There are plenty of redistributionist goals which do not require concerted collective action or threshold levels of contribution.”

5. Shout it from the rooftops! (some results about auction pricing)

1. Wrong but interesting, here too.

2. Ed Glaeser on how New York City should recapture its economic diversity.

3. Long and interesting interview with Abhijit Banerjee.

4. Energy arbitrage.

5. Is there a deception-general ability, involving a skill at both telling lies and detecting them?

1. Will cellphones be able to see through walls, and other barriers too?  Via Chris F. Masse.

2. Update on the elite Grayling humanities school.

3. The Guardian on An Economist Gets Lunch, by Oliver Burkeman, “This column will change your life,” and a lengthy review from Kyle Smith at The New York Post; “Cowen’s special sauce is rationality, which is why this may be the first food book I have ever made it through.”

4. Economies of Scope?

5. The violence of Montreal snow removal, and replicating three years’ worth of articles in psychology journals, and one economist’s guide to politics in China.

1. Bo and Ben Winegard review Charles Murray in Evolutionary Psychology (pdf), and toward a theory of presidential fame.

2. Does using a foreign language reduce decision-making biases?

3. An experiment with pure cash transfers.

4. Eurozone contagion through U.S. broker-dealers?

5. One hundred years of shipping.

1. School for quants.

2. Game show based on game theory (video).

3. Legal troubles at Great Wall, the Chinese supermarket featured in An Economist Gets Lunch.

4. David Brooks on value added at colleges.

5. Which investors are the trend-chasers?