Results for “assorted links”

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1. How to form a habit.

2. My old column on yuan revaluation, still timely; here is a related Brad DeLong post from back then.

3. Robert Alter loves the new David Grossman book.

4. Why has not the wheel evolved more often in biological systems?

1. Faith in Mexico.

2. Yet more Nobelists at non-top tier universities.

3. How I long for Walter Block to invoke property rights.

4. The Party of Medicare, Rand Paul too.

5. The rise of epigenetics.

6. Megan McArdle reviews Steven Johnson on innovation.

1. When the eBook is more expensive.

2. How to fly horses around.

3. MIE: The Lockup Prison Restaurant in Shibuya.

4. Is a rented friend a real friend?

5. The personal tax plan of the NZ central banker, Arthur Grimes.

6. "Future selves may score the best reviews of all" — read more here.

1. How much is a day of George Akerlof's time worth?  How much is Joe Stiglitz's suit worth?  Is Akerlof a Coasian?

2. Farmers vs. foragers, is the battle over? (speculative)

3. Race and the foreclosure crisis, more here.

4. How to translate Flaubert.

5. The lady (or man) in red.

6. Scott Sumner on Las Vegas.

1. A theory of political change or the lack thereof.

2. Textbook-perfect example of us vs. them thinking.

3. China mobile Jackie Chan fact of the day.

4. Via Chris Hayes, very good essay on conservatism.

5. State of Play, good British TV show on journalism and politics, recommended.

1. Europe according to France, a map.  There is more here.

2. 24 different English language accents (some have curse words)

3. Gramophone classical music picks for the year.

4. Markets in everything: credit card cosignatures, via Jodi Beggs.

5. Does China have a monopoly over rare earth minerals?

6. How an economist is governing Ecuador.

1. How good is Twitter at estimating the strengths of earthquakes?

2. Robin Hanson.

3. Markets in everything: DUI scooters.

4. Markets in everything: a waste of good lingerie (safe for work, actually).

5. Michael Cannon's theory of how to limit Medicare expenditures: "Larger vouchers would mean greater demand for medical care. Yet each producer group's incentive to lobby for a higher growth rate would be much less than their incentive to lobby to increase the prices Medicare pays them today."

1. Cliches about Pakistan.

2. Good photos of trade (Hamburg port).

3. An airplane in front of the moon.

4. How might real dogs treat robot dogs?

5. The Simpsons predict the next Nobel Laureate in economics.

6. In Thailand, the reception of the "Korean Wave."

1. Do antidepressants make us more Kantian?

2. Don't get off the train early.

3. Tim Harford on Melissa Dell.

4. On the lifespan of Chinese architecture.

5. Three paths to public goods.

6. Prolific Amazon reviewers.

1. How to eat at an Indian buffet.

2. New links on the still-superb David Grossman book, which I am continuing to read.

3. How hedge funds make so much money?

4. I am not sure how to title this one.

1. The impressive Melissa Dell.

2. The one-on-one meeting.

3. Canuxploitation.

4. Is there a core in this game?  Worrying developments in the politics of the flow of the Nile River.

5. "He has legitimate reasons for all the repellent ideas he holds.” — a good article on cross-political marriages and relationships.

6. The Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra.

1. Markets in everything, wildfire defense service.

2. How to get better Korean food.

3. Does the internet make you happier?

4. Melchior Palyi and other very early critiques of the bond rating agencies.

5. Economies of scope at the car wash.

6. Low-divorce jobs.

1. My tweet on GSEs.

2. Advertising markets in everything, and this one too.

3. Via Chris F. Masse, short video on where good ideas come from.

4. Space blog with good pictures.

5. Very informative new legal blog on securities markets, including some detailed posts on "going dark."

6. Choice blindness.

7. The job Larry Summers gave up.

1. The culture that is Fairfax, continued.

2. Matthew Kahn on Climatopolis, his new book.

3. Sometimes I read obituaries of people I had never heard of.

4. White vs. black responses to LeBron James.

5. How bad are things for Ireland?