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Assorted links
1. Good profile of Eric Schadt, “he wants to be a “master of information” instead of simply a scientist.”
2. Diane Coyle reviews the new book by Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel.
3. There is no Great Stagnation (the haircut clinches it). Or try this video.
4. Paul Krugman on the Ryan numbers, and on the real estate assumptions. And revision on Ryan and the ACA Medicare cuts.
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1. Is the black market in metereorite fragments a good or bad development? (NYT)
2. Salamander has algae living inside its cells. And Reihan on Lula.
3. China famine facts of the day.
4. Breaking down the decline in TFP; note the importance of sectoral shifts into lower-growing sectors, as discussed here by Gordon Bjork and in the comments by Andy Harless.
5. Dan Gardner on nuclear power.
6. How San Francisco parking pricing will work.
7. How the world’s economic center of gravity has been shifting.
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1. There is no Great Stagnation (video).
2. Perry Anderson on Brazil (worth the free registration, one of the best articles this year so far).
3. I second Matt’s recommendation of What Hath God Wrought?
4. Plans to reform Britain’s NHS are falling apart.
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1. One measure of the value of computers.
2. Karl Smith on Garett Jones and TARP.
3. Photograph taken from Borders, a theory of optimal bundling, and yet the restroom in my house works just fine. They even let me take books into it for reading.
4. “Everything is obvious once you know the answer,” a new Duncan Watts book.
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1. National serviceman needs maid to carry his backpack (Singapore, Adam Smith, decline of martial virtue, via Chris F. Masse).
2. Paul Krugman on the 1921 recovery.
3. Robin Hanson and Brian Christian.
4. Unemployment duration still going up.
5. Brad DeLong, slouching toward recalculation. And his response.
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1. Facebook and TGS, and Robin Hanson reviews TGS. Mike Mandel responds to Karl Smith.
2. Is envy a stronger motivator than admiration?
3. Passing to yourself off the backboard (video).
4. Yet another way of viewing our labor market troubles, or in other words, start-ups have suffered too (NYT blog).
5. Via Chris F. Masse, when will China overtake the U.S. in science? (NB: I’m not convinced by this article).
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2. Why you should ride escalators.
3. There is no Great Stagnation (video).
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1. Secrets of success in Singapore.
2. The Art of Theory, a new on-line political philosophy quarterly; first issue has a symposium on Adam Smith.
3. Review of the new Peter Chang outlet in Chartlottesville.
4. Scott Winship’s statistical adjustment to male median wage estimates.
5. Actor Farley Granger dies at 85 (NYT).
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1. How to avoid a gendered conference; at first I thought this was a Straussian satire by a confirmed chauvinist.
2. Yakuza step forward with relief supplies.
3. Zero marginal product Frank Lloyd Wright homes?
4. Persistent wage disparities in Britain are due to people rather than place.
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1. Here is Arnold Kling’s proof that Baron Holbach was right.
2. Julian Offray de La Mettrie’s “Man a Machine.”
4. Which political views are most and least fluent with science?
5. 15 websites that forbid you from linking to them.
7. Karel von Wolferen assesses Japan’s response to the crisis.
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1. Can a failed spy succeed in Russian politics?
2. Does the finance premium penalize entrepreneurship?
3. “Daniel (jungleman12) Cates, a 21-year-old self-made multimillionaire, lapsed economics/computer-science major and one-day Bubble Trouble champion of the world, was mildly annoyed.” Link here.
4. Michael Spence narrates his life.
5. Reviews of Margaux Fragoso.
6. Why don’t more female economists blog?
7. Bryan Caplan, slouching toward consequentialism.
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1. Stephen Williamson on AD-AS models, read the bottom of his post.
2. How and why regulators multiply.
3. What do they read in prison?
4. Will religion die out in some countries? Dubious claims based on extrapolation and then called a “model.”
5. Passing the Turing test on Twitter?
6. Markets in everything: eleven creative pencil sharpeners.
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1. “Remember Stravinsky!”
2. There is no Great Stagnation, glass in your life edition (video). And UK podcast on TGS.
3. Markets in everything: Asperger’s comedy troupe.
4. Beware the chimp.