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The Dark Side?
Gretchen Rubin interviews Todd Kashdan (of GMU I might add, though I don't know him):
Is there anything you find yourself doing repeatedly that gets in the way of your happiness?
There is a dark side to my desire to become an expert in psychology,
knowledgeable about science and literature, skilled as a parent,
mountain biker, and weightlifter, and attentive as a husband. When I
think I know something, I stop paying attention. It happens far too
often and when it does, opportunities close. I constantly have to
remind myself to let go of my ego, let go of my expectations, and stay
flexible and profoundly aware of what is right in front of my senses.
Here is Todd's new blog. Here is Todd on the Mayan afterlife. Here is Gretchen's version of phony advertising markets in everything.
Here is Todd's home page, with Todd's lists.
Assorted links
1. The economy: have we seen the worst?
2. Financial regulation as chess game.
Assorted links
1. Transcript of Bob Lucas talk, with eminent questioners and, at one point, Bob Lucas falling down the stairs.
2. Bloggingheads.TV between Mark Thoma and Scott Sumner.
3. What Larry Summers learned at a hedge fund.
4. Lesswrong, a rationality blog, with guest posts by Robin Hanson.
5. Markets in everything: a pro al Qaeda magazine, from North Carolina, in English.
Assorted links
1. Markets in everything: Anatomie-Bettwäsche.
2. Zach Wamp.
3. Vitamin sales seem to be countercyclical.
4. I Love You, Man is a deeply conceptual movie, full of (implicit) social science. It raises (and does not resolve in the usual corny way) the possibility that our choices of romantic partners are more interchangeable than our choices of same-sex friends.
Assorted links
1. Malaria and African economic development, via Chris Masse.
2. Lengthy profile of Larry Summers, from TNR, interesting and has new material.
3. Via Chug, markets in everything: topless coffee shop in Maine. And, via Matt, a topless doughnut shop, same state.
4. Update on Massachusetts health care; interesting throughout. Can they really do away with fee for service? ""Really controlling costs requires just stopping spending,” said Stuart H. Altman, a professor of health policy at Brandeis University." The Obama administration would be wise to keep those words in mind.
Two related links I don’t wish to title
They are both about economic growth. One is here and the story involves a sari and the Taj Mahal.
The other is here, from Taiwan ("China fact of the day"?), and the markets in everything version as well. Excerpt:
The reasonably priced food includes curries, pasta, fried chicken and
Mongolian hot pot, as well as elaborate shaved-ice desserts with names
like "diarrhea with dried droppings" (chocolate), "bloody poop"
(strawberry) and "green dysentery" (kiwi). Despite the disturbing
descriptions, the desserts were great. But after seeing curry drip down
a mini-toilet, I may never have that sauce again.
Do read the whole thing, but the bottom line is this:
Every customer sits on a stylish acrylic toilet (lid down) designed
with images of roses, seashells or Renaissance paintings. Everyone
dines at a glass table with a sink underneath. The servers bring your
meal atop a mini toilet bowl (quite convenient, as it brings the food
closer to your mouth), you sip drinks from your own plastic urinal (a
souvenir), and soft-swirl ice cream arrives for dessert atop a dish
shaped like a squat toilet.
I thank Chug and Kurt for the pointers.
Rob Nelson writes me
I saw a sign today that might fill your markets in everything and countercyclical assets categories."Foreclosure Bus Tours800-XXX-XXXX"The availability of the tours is the market is anything.Equity in the tour company will be the asset.
Assorted links
1. Hacking Obama's Blackberry.
2. Hacking a university press.
3. Hacking Obama's housing plan. And here is a good critique.
4. Markets in everything, sell advertising space on your bald head.
Assorted links
1. New Yale econ classes (open, on the web), including Robert Shiller on finance.
2. How good is Shane Battier? (by Michael Lewis), and comment by Al Roth. So why aren't the Rockets better is my question.
3. China markets in everything fact of the day, hat tip to this very good China law blog.
4. NEA arts money ended up back in the stimulus bill.
5. Gramophone magazine, all the archives from 1923, now on-line and searchable.
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1. The Political Economy of the Financial Crisis, by the excellent Roger Congleton.
2. How to trick your three-year-old.
3. Markets in everything, Japan edition once again.
4. Serotonin and financial risk?
5. Arctic unicorns, worth a view.
Shhh…………….
Robin Hanson writes:
the less they might work. We might make people realize that they need
to compensate via saving, and the more we scare folks into thinking we
need a huge stimuli, the more we might scare them away from normal
economic activity levels. So should we stop explaining macro-economics during this crisis, and stop saying how desperately we need a stimuli?
From now on…Markets in Everything! All day, every day…
Assorted links
1. "Realization utility," by me, for Money magazine.
2. Pick two.
3. The Baseline Scenario, a new web site.
4. Markets in everything: chav-free holidays?
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1. Bottom line thinking on the stimulus, pro and con.
2. Which personality types let you cut in line?
3. Cultural treasures of New Jersey?
4. Markets in everything: clothes made out of your pet's fur.
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1. Laura Miller's pieces for Salon.com.
2. The increasing use of German words in English; is it just the financial crisis?
3. One moderately fast reader.
5. Via Jim Swofford, do avatars consume as much electricity as do Brazilians?
6. Markets in everything; the usual, etc., nothing new here.
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1. Good French meals: not in France
3. Markets in everything: a tunnel complex in central London
5. Paul Krugman: What to Do