Results for “assorted links”

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1. Good and more positive review of Parfit.

2. The wisdom of Garett Jones.

3. Congestion pricing in the Netherlands.

4. Michael Lewis on Germany, funny, one-sided, slightly offensive, somewhat true.

5. Did CCTV stop the riots?  And Amazon UK withdraws the truncheons, via Chris F. Masse.  Here is The Browser compendium of articles on the riots.

6. Photos to ponder, don’t forget the caption.

1. The real volatility these days.

2. S&P vs. Moody’s.

3. Free trade in trains.

4. Philip Maymin on why risk-reducing financial regulation is so hard.

5. Are slender, single women underpaid?

6. Can China move to a consumption society? (good analysis)

1. Black widow males prefer well-fed mates.

2. In which areas has consumer spending gone up since the recession?

3. Pregnancy envy and the death tax (pdf, strange but interesting essay by Dalton Conley).

4. Does P = NP (or not) matter for market efficiency? (video talk and linked paper)

5. Kenneth Rogoff on what to do.

6. An epistemic defense of the blogosphere (gated).

1. Can a woman lobby a guy she has already rejected?

2. The Baltimore Poe house might be closing.

3. What should Obama have done in 2009?

4. Are the Chinese liberals in decline? (link now fixed)

5. Scott Adams: “A lack of creativity always looks like some other problem. If no one invents the next great thing, it will seem as if the problem
is tax rates or government red tape or whatever we’re blaming this week.”

1. Future behavior is seen as more intentional than past behavior.

2. In what field are blind mathematicians most likely to work?

3. Lessons for gift-giving: give cash and honor requests.

4. The silent bank run in Greece, continued, some amazing stories.

5. Via Chris F. Masse, the world’s safest asset class (and it is French, some explanation here).

6. Chileans throw fruit and small stones at the rescued miners.

7. Excellent Ezekiel Emanuel piece on cancer drugs and price controls.

1. New ways of thinking about genetic variation.

2. Markets in everything, safe for work but not an entirely pleasant thought.

3. The culture (and religion) that is Netherlandish.

4. The jobs mystery is not solved.

5. High SEI.

1. Nepotism in Italian academia.

2. I liberate books, he imprisons them.  Who is the greater lover?

3. Chile’s budget rules, by Edwin Dolan, still one of the most underrated econ bloggers.

4. Per capita peak oil was thirty years ago.

5. Maldives Island underwater restaurant.

1. Netflix revenue vs. Blockbuster revenue, graph, sorry folks it is in nominal terms!

2. Is government about the supply of public goods?

3. “It is a science fair project, but it turned out very well for me.”  And he has a blog, good post on the Apollo program.

4. Dominic Lawson on chess.

5. How is China doing as an innovator?

6. Profitable biases of NBA referees; interesting hypothesis, although I am not convinced the referees are the active factor.

1. Fiscal policy during the Great Depression, by Brad DeLong.  Useful data, well presented.

2. Ken Rogoff on The Second Great Contraction.

3. Modeling basketball.

4. Underreported Norwegian heroes.

5. Larry Summers on the debt ceiling deal.  And, if the Tea Party members are terrorists, they are the new Dr. Evil, for the uneducated background is here.

1. Arlington, VA passes Strip Mall Preservation Act.

2. Various reasons why the internet is deflationary.

3. A teenager (not Michael Moore it turns out) debates Milton Friedman and, in my view, beats him.  Milton seems to lose his cool, which was rare for him.

4. Do bees have an emotional life?

5. A new font to help dyslexics, and more here.

1. A politically incorrect Indian economics professor who teaches summer school at Harvard; here is Wikipedia.

2. Arbitrage!  A lottery that can be beaten.

3. A 1914 neurology exam.

4. An excellent Interfluidity post on how we thought we were wealthier than we were, and why it matters.

5. Scott Sumner’s culture report.

6. What does the debt deal mean for health care?  And winners and losers in the deal.

1. Does oxytocin have a dark side?

2. Jokes about perfect complements.

3. Japanese food markets in everything.

4. You hardly know yourself.

1. Interview with Lobo Antunes.

2. The world’s skinniest house?

3. Mushroom death suit.

4. Time is money, literally.

5. The “productivity surge” melts away in the new data.

6. Spanish update, no good news.

1. How smart are sheep?

2. Taiwan lottery markets in everything.

3. Joseph Stiglitz con los Indignados.

4. Cheap labor and TGS.

5. Rents are too damn high, proof that Matt Yglesias thinks too small.

6. The Italy-Germany spread is back up to before the rescue plan.

1. Michael Rosenwald is now blogging.

2. Do better educated leaders bring more economic growth?

3. Larry Summers on engaging with practitioners.

4. Crocodiles all the way down?  A photo from Australia.

5. Can you name the top ten economies in Africa, including North Africa?

6. How you are really supposed to play Monopoly.

7. The Rent is Too Damn High!