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1. New zombie horror Cuban movie coming out.

2. Bringing a child into existence does benefit that child.

3. Does managerial nagging work?

4. How should we graph poverty?

5. Why do I so enjoy articles on the future geopolitics of the Arctic?

1. Markets in everything: 2-D glasses.

2. More correlations from OK Cupid.

3. What is not covered by private health insurance, an oft-forgotten list when health care policy is debated.

4. Does shopping help keep you alive?

1. “You will die having missed almost everything…”

2. My short piece on S&P, and Brad DeLong on the same.

3. No child left unmedicated?

4. Kate Middleton’s fondness for fascinators.

5. Fun colored maps of Europe, including which countries are most laissez-faire.

1. A better approach to controlling Mexican drug violence.

2. The culture that is Japan; “The sole person in Japan who is not obliged to use honorifics, or rather, is prohibited from using them, is the emperor.”

3. David Frum on the welfare state.

4. The culture that is Mexico.

5. Edward O. Wilson changes his mind on altruism.

6. Dilbert on low-hanging fruit.

1. How to attract a puffin.

2. Stepping into the Wilkinson-Caplan debate on kids, and here.

3. Via Chris F. Masse, new quantum teleportation results.

4. Skeptical response on the origin of language.

5. Markets in everything: The Inflatable Crowd Company.

6. How relations with Brazil are changing, and why.

1. Steven Soderbergh’s media diet (excellent list of films).

2.  Privatizing adoption (pdf).

3. The Joy of Not Cooking.

4. Was language invented only once? (worth one of your twenty).

5. Trade and inequality: a parable.

6. The world’s smallest nerd wedding rings.

1. Brink Lindsey on frontier economics, and a related comment on education.

2. Advertising markets in everything.

3. Short Gary Gorton bit on CDS and excess transparency.

4. What is the consumer surplus from computers?  And is retirement stagnating?  And engines of stagnation.

5. Optimism about solar power.

6. In case I hadn’t made it clear, contrary to its critics the city of Brasilia works reasonably well.

1. Miami markets in everything.

2. Has South Florida been set back to 2002?, and here.

3. The wisdom of the IMF.

4. More from the cool-headed Kevin Drum, on the budget.

5. Jason Brennan’s The Ethics of Voting, I recommend it too.

1. Interesting, but interpret with caution.

2. Motions of a Brazil textile plant, set to music.

3. Ezra Klein’s readers recommend excellent books, good picks.

4. Top ten German economists on Twitter.

5. Doctors choose differently and more riskily for themselves than for their patients, is it worth one of your twenty (W1OY20)?

6. The future of books.

7. Alexander Field, on the era of no great stagnation, the 1930s.

1. What predicts a country’s beer consumption? (pdf)

2. Has English mobility risen since medieval times?

3. Econometrics blog, by Dave Giles.

4. How to read more after your new baby arrives.

5. The new Grant Achatz restaurant pricing system.

6. Let’s generalize the school nurse.

1. Winship > Stiglitz.

2. The culture that is Japan.

3. Bob Dylan censorship (“Desolation Row”?) and Rolling Stones censorship in China.

4. The real incidence of a carbon tax.

5. Brazil is the most twittering nation per on-line capita.

6. China runs a quarterly trade deficit.

1. Median wage stagnation catches up with women.

2. The dysfunctionality of our disability programs.

3. The Bank of Facebook?

4. INET Bretton Woods videos starting to go up.

1. More non-Keynesian labor market results.

2. Purple Health Care Plan (endorsed by five Nobelists).

3. Bangladesh blog, with lots on economics, and a related and more personal Bangladesh blog here.

4. What happens to Danish brains when they watch money being destroyed?

5. Do people want stores to be and look more packed with stuff?

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.

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.