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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. There is no Great Stagnation.
2. Via Chris F. Masse, Intrade on a Japanese nuclear accident, grade 5.
4. Olivier Blanchard’s remarks on macro (video), and comments from Arnold Kling.
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1. John Currin and Rachel Feinstein have unusual politics, see the end of the article.
2. New neutrality results for the minimum wage.
4. Hear different.
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1. Leijonhufvud interviews Hayek.
2. Displaced cargo containers, whole slide show here.
3. Tsunami early warning systems are effective.
5. Beatles reviewed 1000 years from now (video).
6. Using the new MR search function to read about Daylight Savings Time.
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1. Mexican report on TGS (in Spanish).
2. David Leonhardt on economists’ blind spots.
3. Do the opposite!
6. “renewed philosophic interest…”
7. How did humans move away from apes?, hail the Scottish Enlightenment.
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1. Page numbers are for wussies.
2. First chapter of Agnar Sandmo's Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought.
3. Via Chris F. Masse, life imitates art?
4. The pirate non-tragedy of the commons.
5. How much is the minimum wage at fault?
6. Kevin Drum on "left-wing mistakes".
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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."
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.
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1. U.S. passport ownership by state.
2. Tim Harford's "Dear Economist" returns.
3. Modeled Behavior on TGS. NPR 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.
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1. How to make money? I'm not convinced.
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.
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1. A skeptical take on recovery and private credit conditions.
2. Ugandan English.
3. Russ Roberts on Canadian income data. Will 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.
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1. Do female members of Congress work harder than the men?
2. Via Craig Newmark, data on the Duke economics Ph.d. students.
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!)
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1. Tristan Reed's notes on economics papers.
2. How to cure all of your problems.
3. What is the American Sociological Association up to?
4. Coke to buy the rest of Honest Tea, Barry Nalebuff's company.
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1. Following an entire cohort.
2. New Sichuan hot pot coming to GMU Arlington, right in the GMU building!
3. Systematically biased beliefs about political influence.
4. Anthony Bourdain visits Haiti (TV show).
5. The future of public buildings?
6. Ten movies about food, from Christiana Weber.
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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.