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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.

5. More on the economics of Groupon.

1. Restaurants cherry pick parties by size.

2. Interview on the new Tim Harford book.

3. What Esther Duflo reads.

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.

1. Žižek defends communism.

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.

4. Good overview on the euro.

5. Seatbelts and offsetting behavior, a counter-revisionist view.

1. Silent trade.

2. David Beckworth responds on the liquidity trap.

3. Susan Athey is now chief economist for Microsoft, and Tim Harford reflects on his first book.

4. Why are the “most livable cities” so unpopular for actual living?

5. Arnold Kling reviews Alexander Field.

1. I have not yet been assimilated.

2. Futures that never were.

3. Ecological footprint feedback can discourage people.

4. Rortybomb on Kroszner.

5. Perception vs. reality in NBA ref bias, with reference to Pat Riley.

6. Fukuyama reviews Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty (1/20).

1. Watch markets in everything, why not just run faster?

2. The economics of Groupon.

3. The macro learned in economics grad school, though I disagree that ideology is the reason for RBC popularity.

4. Singapore allows political competition on the internet (1/20), ungated version here.

1. When should we tax goods with inelastic demand?

2. Comments on “the photo.”

3. Will on the new Jerry Gaus book; Kevin Vallier’s summary is intended as positive, but it reflects my reservations about the book: “In sum, OPR defends public reason liberalism without contractarian foundations. It is Kantian without being rationalistic. It is Humean without giving up the project of rationally reforming the moral order. It is evolutionary but not social Darwinist. It is classical liberal without being libertarian. It is Hegelian and organicist without being collectivist or statist.”  Too much engagement with macro-positions of philosophic others, too many strung together, semi-empirical casual observations, not enough focused, narrowed down progress on the knotty particular problems of social choice and aggregation and whether rules are simply an arbitrary category.  The argument takes on too many moving pieces — not quite empirical, not quite theoretical — in a way which is to this reader was not persuasive.

1. Soviet film classics coming to YouTube.

2. Oy.

1. What drove the innovations behind the Industrial Revolution?

2. The culture that is France.

3. Clinical evidence for the bias of mood affiliation.

4. The economic prospects for artists.

5. Race, not party.

6. There is no autism epidemic.

7. Is “leadership decapitation” an effective strategy?

1. Creative bookshelves.

2. Problems in Pakistani water policy.

3. Pakistani reader responses to OBL death.

4. Via Chris F. Masse, NYT breaks its “honorific” rules for bin Laden.

5. Via The Browser, The Last Prisoner.

6. User reviews of bin Laden compound.

1. Markets in everything: treehouses for grown-ups.

2. Medicare bonuses will soon be based in part on patient satisfaction.

3. Interview with a nine-year-old autistic boy.

4. “Elementary, my dear Watson…!”

5. Another selfish reason to have kids (1/20 but worth it I think).

1. Why is this an equilibrium (video of cheetahs)?

2. The real Hayekian answer should be, and sometimes was, nominal gdp targeting, to minimize price distortions.  There is much more on Hayek and nominal gdp here (pdf).

3. Via Chris F. Masse, Pepsi Social Vending System Spam Markets in Everything.  Egads, can’t you just buy a soda?  What’s wrong with monetary exchange?

4. Extending Tim Harford’s idea, are economic facts disappearing (Hernando de Soto)?

5. Brazil is massively violating PPP, I can attest to this.

1. Recommendations for psychology reading (not exactly my list but interesting nonetheless).

2. Which food pathogens have the highest economic costs?

3. Sorting to stagnation.

4. A plea for more theory in field experiments.

5. How prevalent is labor market monopsony? (pdf)

6. Bill Simmons’s new site to come.

1. Can the eurozone get over its fear of Lehman?

2. Daniel Sutter podcast on economics and tornadoes and their impact.

3. Markets in everything: perfumes you can’t even smell.

4. Richard Cornuelle has passed away.

5. “I always assumed the Death Star was primarily designed as a cost-cutting measure.”

6. Europe isn’t as green as you think.