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1. Interview with Bill James.

2. The life of a lost shipping container.

3. Environmental influences on autism: how real?

4. Cooling foam for the skin, from Japan.

5. Quick primer on Herbert Hoover and misuse of the historical example, regarding fiscal policy.

1. Markets in everything?

2. Will Americans adapt to the self-driving car?

3. How Singapore does bus subsidies?

4. When nudge backfires.

5. Guided by the Lit.

6. The truth about wealth.

1. In Israel, which should be the days off?

2. “Quilliam, writing in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, says that, according to a survey, only 11.5 percent of romantic novels mention condom use.”  More here.

3. Calorie counts don’t matter very much.

4. The economic boom in Peru.

5. Which California state employee is paid the most?

1. Timothy Lee now has a Forbes blog.

2. I repeat (again): Mexico has been doing better than most people think.

3. How many people call up The Fat Duck?

4. Kevin Drum adds a dose of sanity to budget discussions.

5. Will Germany ban pre-natal genetic testing?

1. David Glasner is now blogging monetary economics.

2. Seattle Times review of TGS.

3. Good account of dramatically falling migration from Mexico, and rising living standards in Mexico.  It’s gone from about 500,000 illegal Mexican migrants a year to 100,000 a year.

4. Where does the revenue from the iPod go?  Full paper here.

5. When giant wombats walked the earth, and Angus doesn’t want the deal.

1. Will Iceland move to prescription-only tobacco?

2. Books which are coming out soon.

3. What does it cost to make a typical hit song?

4. Who is the most followed person on Google+?

5. New hypothesis about why global temperature was falling for a while (not good news).  More detail here.

6. What times of the day are criminals at work?  9-5 it seems.

7. New science blogs from Scientific American.

1. Vote winners for best conservative books.

2. Suicide bomber markets in everything.

3. Prince Twins Seven-Seven passes away.

4. People’s reasons for not having children.

5. Anthony Painter reviews TGS.

6. The largest holders of Greek debt.

7. Read the “Tree of Life” dialogue or better yet watch the Leo Kottke video.  Here is my favorite Malick review so far; oddly I find New World to be his masterpiece.

1. QE: the bottom line, by James Hamilton.

2. e, explained! (hat tip Alex)

3. Accountability.

4. Is the current system of working papers working out?

5. Seth Roberts on health care stagnation.

1. Betting odds for the literature Nobel Prize.  Cormac McCarthy is favored.

2. Fast Company review of TGS.

3. Rybka, world chess champion from 2007 to 2010, stripped of title and asked to return prize money.  This is also an implicit argument for a looser patents policy.

4. More serious evidence of structural unemployment.

5. Iowa just put up its new electronic political markets, make them deep and liquid!

6. Mario’s post-mortem on the stimulus.

1. The economics of the NBA lockout.

2. Do migrants improve their hometowns through remittances?

3. Yet where are the bond market vigilantes?  Few people invoke this concept consistently.  Explaining such apparent tensions is exactly why every columnist should have a blog.

4. China fact of the day.

5. Left-wingers love graduate school, conservatives do not as much (pdf).

1. China web search of the day.

2. The Israeli boycott of cottage cheese.

3. North Korea to close its universities.

4. Where the gay families are.

5. Extended interview with Banerjee and Duflo.

6. Jeff Sachs recommends five books, I expected only one of the picks.

7. Yes.

1. Nozick as pluralist.

2. What is happening to R&D productivity in Pharma?

3. In praise of mystery shoppers, yet the idea is dumped.

4. In praise of John Quincy Adams.

5. Cash for care.

6. Bryan Caplan responds on education.

1. Another list with different countries in a rank order.

2. Ross Douthat on Unnatural Selection.

3.  Not just CPI bias, and contrary to common impression per capita gdp growth rates also have been falling.  If median income growth rates are slower yet, that is a sign of potent rent-seeking by minority groups (finance, medicine, politicians, lobbyists, etc.).

4. Update on who is the world’s most traveled person.

5. Debate over whether ATM sounds are real.

1. There is still some low-hanging fruit.

2. Download many silent films here.

3. It turns out that Randall Dale Adams sued Errol Morris, for telling his life story in The Thin Blue Line (and thereby vindicating him and getting him out of jail).  And is Egalia funded by Swedish educational vouchers?

4. Edward Hugh on Spain.

5. Milton Friedman and the financial crisis.

6. David Henderson writes a critique of TGS.  He doesn’t contest that median income is nearly stagnant and that TFP is dramatically down since 1973; in the latter case, which clearly establishes the core point of the book, rather than admitting the conclusion he shifts the talk to the difficulties of predicting the future (though I stress that TGS will indeed end at some currently unknown point in time).  Both facts are prima facie evidence that innovations are not doing much to improve the standard of living of the typical person, especially compared to some earlier periods of time.  David is simply backwards concerning the argument on land; it’s not that land today is too expensive, it’s that extra land (we still have plenty of it in Nevada or for that matter Virginia) doesn’t have the marginal economic import it used to, most of all because of modern agriculture.  His numbers on land strongly support my point rather than refuting it.   The measured consumer surplus from the internet is small, not large.  The evidence that more education would yield a high return is quite strong, see the earlier post today.  I’ve written about the benefits of deregulation in plenty of other places but in this book I wanted people to focus on technological rather than political issues.

1. A very good blog by a seven-year-old; can you guess the topic?

2. Is the whole CDS market becoming bogus?  Is it now just a slightly crooked game of how to define a “credit event”?

3. Four miles of protestors in Yemen.

4. Macropolicy lessons from Sweden; and see #5 on the role of the Fed in bailing them out.

5. Video footage of cultural icons.