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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.

5. Optimal taxi strategies.

Assorted links

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.

Assorted links

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).

Assorted links

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.

8. The growth in unpaid jobs.