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1. One paywall to rule them all?
2. The irrational voter with endogenous turnout (pdf, think of it as an attempt to refute Caplan. The result is hard to believe, and it is just published in gated form here).
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1. The CDC explains how to prepare for a Zombie apocalypse. Yes really, the CDC.
2. The Business of Bounty Hunting on Freakonomics radio, includes yours truly and legendary bounty hunter Bob Burton. It’s always interesting to me to hear how easy the professionals Dubner and Ryssdal make excellent radio sound.
3. Matt Yglesias warns (?) us about the Rise of the Robot Proletariat. Is this the beginning?
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1. PBS Newshour segment on The Great Stagnation, including an excellent MIT critique by Erik Brynjolfsson.
2. How David Brooks fits into Britain.
4. Famous science fiction writers recommend science fiction.
6. Tim Harford on unexpected and underappreciated economics books.
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1. One way of measuring structural shifts.
2. The culture that is German, they sold condoms in the Bundestag (in German), though now no more.
3. Debt ceiling games throughout the ages.
4. Coverage from Guinea (in French); the maid is described as a nice person. And “His most recent book, Left in Dark Times: A Stand Against the New Barbarism, discusses political and cultural affairs as an ongoing battle against the inhumane.” The Germans give the most detail.
5. The inefficiency of urban sorting?
6. Lengthy 2005 interview with Milton Friedman at 93 (Charlie Rose). Fascinating.
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1. An environmentalist perspective on The Great Stagnation.
2. A history of Christian rock.
3. Did the stimulus destroy jobs on net? (pdf)
4. The etymology of inflation, and also here.
5. Markets in everything: Barbara’s Bakery Peanut Butter Puffin Cereal.
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1. Tyler Cowen, speaking off the cuff, defines friendship, a two minute video.
2. Library of Congress launches National Jukebox.
3. Will data mining end the Great Stagnation? In any case you should major in statistics.
4. German economic growth is surging; again, real factors matter much more than fiscal policy or fiscal austerity.
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1. Super-immigrants are low-hanging fruit, and more here.
2. Abandoned Yugoslavian brutalist war memorials.
4. The GM bailout doesn’t look so good.
5. I vote for Blattman on South Sudan.
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1. Betsey Stevenson on Bryan Caplan and unhappy parents.
2. What Abhijit Banerjee would do for South Sudan.
3. What death means to primates.
4. Ten year old food critic, he is better and more authentic than most.
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1. In defense of flogging by Peter Moskos. I was pretty sure I wrote something like this a few years ago but after a search all I could find was this post on sex and spanking.
2. Google lobbies Nevada to allow Self-Driving Cars. The future isn’t here until suddenly it is. FYI, texting while in the “driver’s” seat would be made legal in such cars.
3. Used car prices are rising so much that many models are selling for more today than a year ago.
4. Conor Friedersdorf’s Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism.
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1. Restaurants cherry pick parties by size.
2. Interview on the new Tim Harford book.
4. Josh Barro on The Great Stagnation and goofing off.
5. I believe you can watch my Wednesday debate with Roger Scruton here.
6. Philadelphia Orchestra puts subscription money into escrow, not a good sign.
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2. Public choice take on the Der Spiegel story on Greece possibly leaving the eurozone.
3. Markets in everything: “A Sicilian social movement is organizing trips that patronize only businesses that do not pay protection money to the Mafia.” (1/20) Higher chance of arson, for one thing.
5. Seatbelts and offsetting behavior, a counter-revisionist view.