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1. China mega-city of the day.

2. Michael Mandel reviews TGS: he says buy not just one copy, but two.

3. Harold Meyerson of WaPo on TGS.  And more from Brink.

4. "Sparks and Praise Fires: A Theory of Unanticipated Revolution."

5. Does behavioral economics undermine the welfare state?

6. The thumb band nudge.

7. Excellent 1990 New Yorker portrait of Mahfouz.

1. Hormonal determinism?

2. Arbitrage fail in the Canadian Lotto?

3. Carlos Slim: against charity.

4. Steve Pearlstein on TGS.  And more on TGS.

5. Moon and Venus over Lichtenstein.

6. Mark Bittman's food policy proposals.

7. Egypt fact of the day.

8. Best blogs for humanities scholars.

1. Kevin Drum reviews TGS.  And Lane Kenworthy.  And Nick Schulz at Forbes: "It’s possible the most important non-fiction book this year won’t be published on paper."

2. Megan on the 1954 kitchen.  And "densifying" to get more low-hanging fruit, from Ryan Avent.  And more from Scott Sumner on the book: "Tyler Cowen’s book has been both a marketing coup and an intellectual game changer.  It has gotten people to focus on issues they intuitively knew were out there, but for which they lacked a framework for thinking about."

3. Eric Falkenstein on TGS.

4. "Mobile money," in Kenya.

5. Index method?  why not just read the thing?

6. Do "Best Actress" winners have shorter marriages?

7. More on Iceland vs. Ireland.

1. Google finds it hard to reinvent philanthropy.

2. WSJ coverage of The Great Stagnation; "…in terms of framing the dialogue Tyler Cowen may very well turn out to be this decade’s Thomas Friedman."

3. Can schools teach meta-cognition?

4. Could some British real marginal rates of taxation rise to 70-83 percent?

5. Via Tim Harford, analysis of proposed NHS reforms, and sources for following Egypt.

6. Will high-speed rail worsen traffic in China?

7. Ezra Klein reviews TGS.  And here is Karl Smith.

1. The most exclusive university in the world?

2. Dating site for sea captains, and the site itself is here (possibly sketchy, one reader tells me).  The captains are here.  Lots of beards, and some strange requests.

3. The bestselling books in France, 2010.

4. Caplan and Wilkinson and the Libertarian challenge.

5. Why grain prices are high for Tunisians.

6. Indie rock and African music.

7. The problem with memoirs.

1. More from Arnold Kling on The Great Stagnation.

2. Kevin Drum on the Kindle version.

3. Predictions about Egypt, from Egyptians, January 2010.

4. How good is Kobe Bryant in the clutch?

5. Markets in everything: Lie back and think of Mother England.

6. Critique of behavioral economics for not being behavioral enough, full paper here.

7. Will Medicaid expand or shrink?

8. TSA halts further "privatizations."

1. The Economist reviews Timur Kuran's new book.

2. Scott Sumner buys a Kindle and reviews The Great Stagnation.

3. Forbes review of The Great Stagnation.

4. Ryan Avent review of The Great Stagnation.

5. David Brooks coverage of The Great Stagnation.

6. What we don't know about cognitive enhancement.

7. Japan reviews The Great Stagnation.

1. Markets in everything, government style.

2. I am reading the new Brian Greene book and it is very good.

3. Hansonian result, though it does not apply to Robin himself.

4. Disagreements about proofiness?

1. Mark Bittman update.

2. Tyler Cowen answers questions about eBooks.

3. Irish politics: a pre-election primer.

4. *The Economist*, circa 1843.

5. Nominal gdp in Germany.

6. Daniel Bell passes away.

1. Symposium on inequality, including Acemoglu and Sumner.

2. China (Afghanistan) photo of the day.

3. Has digital music stopped growing?

4. Ip Man.

5. Critique of Myers-Briggs:"Due to these legitimate criticisms of the MBTI and its unscientific underpinnings, the test is rarely used in clinical psychology. I did a literature search on PubMed and discovered that, interestingly, many of the published studies of its practical utility come from nursing journals. Many of the other publications pertain to relationship counseling and religious counseling. Normally, this is a red flag. When you see a topic that purports to be psychological being used in practically every professional discipline except psychology, you have very good reason to be skeptical of its actual value."

6. The economics of the Davos conference.

7. How we subsidize banks (and see Krugman, to resolve this, one question is how well the expectations theory of the term structure in fact holds).

1. More recommended public choice readings, of a different slant.

2. Chronic pain and its relief.

3. Women prefer larger governments.

4. Paul Samuelson as investor.

5. Virginia = Poland; comparing U.S. state economies to countries.

6. Buildings on rails?

7. Reihan Salam reviews The Great Stagnation.

1. Which economists signed "repeal and replace"?

2. French response on why France succeeds.

3. Man made bombs to clear snow.

4. Journal of Universal Rejection.

5. Interfluidity: on Star Trek, Scott Sumner, and everything else.

6. Undercover work, literally.