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Friday assorted links
1. Why does political gridlock seem to be over for now?
2. Interesting NYT piece on how Israel is trying to restore domestic safety. It’s not even a lead or main article, but an excellent example of insightful reporting, analytics, behavioral understanding, and real world relevance, all rolled up into one piece. Hardly a day goes by on MR that I don’t like to something from the NYT,and this is one good illustration why.
3. Is California overregulating driverless cars?
4. Gifting a mountain to Finland isn’t as easy as it might sound. And five intentionally missed free throws, also on that side of the Atlantic.
Saturday assorted links
2. Integrating the disabled in Vermont.
3. Cop pulls over Google driverless car for driving too slowly. And Dubai firemen to get jetpacks? More here.
4. How to spend $48.5 million, without consuming $48.5 million in real resources.
5. The most googled diets by city.
6. Good Noah Smith post on the assimilation of black immigrants.
7. Arnold Kling’s macroeconomic framework. Ryan Avent’s macroeconomic framework, he believes in the Phillips Curve (and the Lucas supply function?) more than I do.
Thursday assorted links
1. Very good Ian Leslie FT piece on how advertising works, or doesn’t.
2. Caplan-Jones immigration debate link.
3. Case-Deaton vs. Deaton-Case (NYT).
4. Uber for philosophers? And Udacity is taking the next steps, warning there is a video at the link.
6. Facebook’s Siri, namely M. And NYT feature on driverless cars, not just the usual.
Bank of England (!) has started a blog
It is called Bank Underground, a clever title. There is one interesting post on insurance for driverless cars, and another on deflation risk.
Can you imagine the Fed doing the same? The bloggy voice and the need for institutional conformity are not always in perfect synch. Still, perhaps central banks are learning that if they do not define their own image, others will do it for them.
Let’s keep our fingers crossed…
Saturday assorted links
1. Robin Grier podcast and interview about her new book on economic development. And Mark Koyama reviews the new Jacob Levy book.
2. Eel-like robot could explore extraterrestrial oceans; let’s do it. What 1956 thought driverless cars would be like in 1976. Includes a good eight minute video, worth it.
3. Video tour of China Through the Looking Glass.
4. Comparing Kickstarter to NEA panels for funding the arts, theater in particular.
5. Noah Smith on TPP. Jeffrey Frankel favors it too.
6. A post about a British person, but I am not sure how to title it.
Sunday assorted links
1. Should all children wear helmets?
2. Interview with Amy Pascal, with reflections on Bernard Mandeville.
3. Driverless car beats racing driver for the first time.
4, Interesting Krugman post on what is the real price to Greece of continuing the status quo ex ante. His argument is not exactly my view, but if true in some way, it may imply no deal is on the table. It would be interesting to write a contrasting “nested game” post about how much one euro’s worth of concessions to Greece cost Germany and others ?? through a rewriting of other, larger eurozone bargains.
5. How much of violence is motivated by a desire to be virtuous?
The polity that is Singapore
The city-state will open one of its neighborhoods to driverless cars in 2015…
Combined with a version of Uber it would seem, there is more here.
Assorted links
1. Does your horse need a blanket? A user’s guide.
2. Patrick Suppes has passed away. Here is Suppes on “What is a scientific theory?” (pdf) And Angrist and Pischke have a new book on causal inference.
3. How do people bunch their time in the Louvre? And more here.
4. Daniel Drezner responds on the importance of foreign policy for economic growth.
5. Stephen Williamson on the superiority of economists.
6. Ronald Coase’s impact on economics.
7. Why has progress slowed down? And driverless cars to be tested in the UK.
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Will Helsinki make automobiles obsolete?
The Finnish capital has announced plans to transform its existing public transport network into a comprehensive, point-to-point “mobility on demand” system by 2025 – one that, in theory, would be so good nobody would have any reason to own a car.
Helsinki aims to transcend conventional public transport by allowing people to purchase mobility in real time, straight from their smartphones. The hope is to furnish riders with an array of options so cheap, flexible and well-coordinated that it becomes competitive with private car ownership not merely on cost, but on convenience and ease of use.
Subscribers would specify an origin and a destination, and perhaps a few preferences. The app would then function as both journey planner and universal payment platform, knitting everything from driverless cars and nimble little buses to shared bikes and ferries into a single, supple mesh of mobility. Imagine the popular transit planner Citymapper fused to a cycle hire service and a taxi app such as Uber, with only one payment required, and the whole thing run as a public utility, and you begin to understand the scale of ambition here.
The story is here, via s. Here is a further and very different installment in The Culture that is Finland, nice visual on the igloos. Or try this Finland Bitcoin link, blockchain-by-air.
Assorted links
1. Scott Sumner on how to think about France.
2. Three revolutions from Miles Kimball.
3. Why the Germans are still in charge. And Italy’s real problem, in one picture.
4. What is the longest disambiguation page on Wikipedia?
5. My 2011 column on driverless cars.
6. Asian small-clawed otters celebrate enrichment at the Smithsonian.
7. McArdle on Piketty. And check out the cover (!).
Assorted links
1. Bionic kangaroo.
2. Consumption rituals enhance the flavor of chocolate, lemonade, and carrots.
3. Just an arbitrary observation: to my subjective eye, this married couple looks very happy together. (And they met through robots.)
4. You can’t tell how smart women are by seeing their static photos.
5. Will driverless cars push us into congestion pricing?
6. Finally someone is disrupting the towel.
7. How to rank your friends? (not recommended)
8. The McDonald’s theory of international conflict, revisited?
Joseph Nocera calls me on the phone
On Friday, I called Tyler Cowen, the George Mason University economist (and a contributor to The New York Times) to ask what he thought about the relationship between technological innovation and jobs. He told me that he mostly agreed with Brynjolfsson and McAfee about the future, though he disagreed with their assessment of the past. (One of his recent books is titled “The Great Stagnation.”)
Yes, he said, technology would replace humans for certain kinds of jobs, but he could also envision growth in the service sector. “The jobs will be better than they sound,” he said. “A lot of them will require skill and training, and will also pay well. I think we’ll get to driverless cars and much better versions of Siri fairly soon,” he added. “That will make the rate of labor force participation go down.”
Then he chuckled. He had recently been in a meeting with someone, explaining his views. “So what you’re saying,” the man concluded, “is that the pessimists are right. But it’s going to be much better than they think.”
Assorted links
1. Good slides on emerging markets and liquidity, by Hyun Song Shin (pdf).
2. How to make people feel comfortable with driverless cars.
3. Is it the elites who drive polarization?
4. The Great Language Game. I did very well at this, so well that I got bored and stopped playing.
5. The world’s first robot theme park.
6. Ross Douthat tweet on social mobility.
7. Placebo sleep?