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Assorted links

1. Lindsey and Loury on TGS; Glenn gets mad.

2. How do charter schools affect outcomes other than test scores?

3. How much denser can New York City be?

4. Are cultural omnivores declining, or perhaps just switching media?

5. Libertarianism and science fiction.

6. The first review of the new David Foster Wallace; I’ll pass.

7. Should academics join the government?  I’ll pass on that one too!

8. The Gastronomics of bad service; I also try to avoid that.

Assorted links

1. Is traditional publishing really dead?

2. Is the euro really dead?  (Too much on stocks, not enough on flows, to convince me.)

3. Is the stamp really dead? (aka: the culture that is Sweden)

4. Cooperating elephants, and more here.

5. MIE: North Korean food in Annandale, Virginia.  And here is study abroad in the Hermit Kingdom.

6. The future of educational reform, by Steve Teles.

7. Robot debates in science fiction.

8. On DeLong and Varian, Reihan gets it right.  From DeLong, here is stagnation for thee but not for me.

Assorted links

1. There is no great stagnation.

2. 88 percent of Bavarian doctors have prescribed placebos.  The study (in German) is here.

3. The culture that is Japan language of decay.

4. "The search for mud is simple."

5. "The Ashtray Argument."

6. Why Mexican shark reunions are so amazing.

7. The culture that is Germany.

8. Will eBooks first take over in New Zealand?

9. Benjamin Barber on Libya and Qaddafi, his defense.

10. Who is slamming rural America?

Assorted links

1. U.S. passport ownership by state.

2. Tim Harford's "Dear Economist" returns.

3. Modeled Behavior on TGSNPR Morning Edition on TGS.

4. Under- and overshooters in the NBA, using game theory.

5. Dialogue between Joseph Stiglitz and his wife.

6. Don't ignore the risk preimium, when it comes to state pension assets, and more here.

7. Brad DeLong on the fiscal illusion; it's about villains.

8. Reuters and Gary Leff on gas station tacos; it's not about villains.

9. David Brooks reopens his blog.

Assorted links

1. How to make money?  I'm not convinced.

2. China question of the day.

3. Richard Freeman selects and discusses five books on labor unions.

4. The Facebook page for our Modern Principles text; it offers a steady stream of in-class resources.

5. Nicholas Kristof on Timur Kuran and Islam.

6. Should scientists be more Luddite? (pdf)  An uneven but interesting piece.

7. Seth Roberts reviews TGS.

Assorted links

1. A skeptical take on recovery and private credit conditions.

2. Ugandan English.

3. Russ Roberts on Canadian income dataWill Wilkinson on Canada.  And Arnold Kling, slouching toward the great stagnation.  Via CFM, the McKenzie productivity study reflects evidence of the growth slowdown.

4. Pay the homeless.

5. Via Jonah Lehrer, how trivial choices suck us in and trick us (pdf).

6. Humans can use echolocation, and a fascinating story as well.

7. Robin Hanson and Karl Smith on AI, Bloggingheads.TV, self-recommending.

Assorted links

1. Do female members of Congress work harder than the men?

2. Via Craig Newmark, data on the Duke economics Ph.d. students.

3. "The goal is free."

4. Centralized institutions and sudden change, a new paper.

5. A new Peter Chang sighting.

6. The Economist reviews TGS.  (I am pleased that TGS made the NYT bestseller list for eBooks last week at #14; thanks to all of you who bought it and recommended it!)

Assorted links

1. The economics of principal write-downs.

2. Saturn's Hyperion: a moon with odd craters, more astronomy photos here, via GH.

3. Different ways supermarkets increase their profit margins.

4. What economists know about open source software.

5. Peto's paradox: why is there no correlation between animal body size and cancer?, plus a meditation on blue whales.

6. The new Banerjee-Duflo book.

7. Reihan on Brink Lindsey and TGS.