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1. Did IP eat my TFP?

2. Health care in twenty years’ time?  Forty?

3. Useful history of the debt ceiling (pdf); it started during WWI.

4. Paul Romer’s charter city TEDtalk.

5. New Larry Summers column at the FT, seems it will be regular.

1. Against amenities.

2. Interview with Ricardo Caballero.

3. There is no great stagnation.  Here is even more, and better, proof.

4. Are children an inferior good?  And Caplan’s response.  Is it possible that education is a form of real income, and so using education and real income variables — unadjusted — picks up real income better than stand-alone “real income” does?

5. Higher status for computer science.

6. Iceland is crowdsourcing its new constitution.

1. Did I tell you the one about the man carrying a dead weasel?

2. The Industrious Revolution.

3. List of Catania businesses which have pledged not to pay tribute to the Mafia.

4. Should we abolish formal lecturing?

5. Via Chris F. Masse, 108 Chinese infrastructure projects that will change the world.

1. More or less the opposite of the truth.  And do not confuse “hilarity with universality” with “hilarity” more generally.  It is on the first that the Germans fail, not the second.

2. New pricing strategy.

3. An argument that driverless cars are not illegal.

4. Further thoughts on declining crime rates.

5.  Another ZMP laborer?  Or is it sticky wages?

6. Sicilian mayor sells homes for one euro.

7. We were (are) not as wealthy as we thought, or when did the recession really start?

1. Critique of TGS, by Kindred Winecoff.

2. Why the epidemic of mental illness and depression?

3. Tugboats and Arctic icebergs.

4. Germany’s Great Stagnation, and David Leonhardt on Germany.

5. Robert Townsend on how Thais rise out of poverty.

6. Is there an IPO cartel?

1. Stephen Roach defends the economic prospects of China.

2. Public choice reasons why protectionism is not stronger.

3. Temporal allies and spatial rivals.

4. Blogger Tim Kane has a new eNovel, which I thought was very good, some free chapters are here.

1. There is no Great Stagnation (short video).

2. Poverty and depletable willpower.

3. Japan’s artistic gas storage tanks.

4. MIE: AlibiNetwork, from Elan.

5. Slate’s engine for graphing Hollywood careers, inspired by Alex.  And try to guess who the best and most consistent actor is.  The link is interesting throughout.

1. Do you describe yourself as arrogant?

2. The culture that is Germany the marginal value of a party?

3. Taiwanese women “plank.”

4. What has happened to global capital formation?

5. Further discussion of “double-anonymous review” at the AER.

6. Isaac Asimov on what is a library.

1. The Between Parentheses Reading List, highly original.

2. Why so few annuities?

3. Agriculture and TGS.

4. BELLS vs. PIGS.

1. How to write a book, and Will comments.

2. How happy are librarians with their jobs?

3. A new use for BitCoin, but the EFF moves in the other direction, and a new critique here.

4. How well do gdp and population predict a country’s success at chess?

5. Interview with Gene Hackman.

1. Do good restaurant reviews Granger-cause price hikes?  And more here.

2. More on the EU stealth bailout.

3. The decline of the small Korean grocer.

4. “Worms from hell.”

5. Does retail therapy work?

1. Lengthy critique of TGS from the point of view of management theory.

2. My eleven-minute talk on academic publishing advice.

3. Did it really go in?

4. Devastating indictment of eurozone, a few new arguments too.  And a good explanation of it by Paul Krugman.

5. Margaret Thatcher, scientist.

6. Who deserves the elevator grudge?

1. Fool.

2. Where in this fine nation are Americans fittest?

3. What is the time trend in weather deaths?

4. Jobs created by startup businesses, the time trend.

5. The AEA is rejecting double-blind reviewing.

1. Has Singapore’s growth been on top of negative TFP?  (This result is not a strong endorsement of their industrial policy.)

2. James Heckman to work on health economics at Dublin, but too late to change the country’s fundamental path.

3. Is the New Zealand boom finally arriving?

4. Why is it so hard to learn Danish?

5. I agree with Krugman on core inflation, but still this is a sobering thought.

6. Rumors of Greek bank runs, original story here (in Greek).  I am afraid that I agree with this broader radical assessment.  Let history prove me wrong, as it probably will.