marginalrevolution.com - 24 days ago
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1. WEIRD subjects and their importance for social science .
2. Rational overoptimism .
3. Andrew Gelman will have a second blog . I don't yet understand the forthcoming principle of individuation across the two blogs.
4. London Review of Books, full issue on-line .
5. Nouriel ...
marginalrevolution.com - 22 days ago
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1. Jeff Ely will laugh at this .
2. Markets in everything: waiting in line for swine...
flu shots . 3. John Cassidy blog on "rational irrationality." 4. What does your doctor really think of you ?
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marginalrevolution.com - 10/26/2009
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1. Paul Krugman on whether health care reform
will work and benefit people . 2. Predictors of...
job performance . 3. #slatepitches 4. The Afghani socialist calculation debate . 5. Another countercyclical asset: runaway youths .
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marginalrevolution.com - 17 days ago
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1. Photos from inside a Colombian prison .
2. How to increase altruism in toddlers ? 3....
Soviet mathematics as pure status competition . 4. How people count money, across culture (video). 5. Real vs. placebo coffee : it doesn't matter if it's ...
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... (pointer from Tyler Cowen ) brandishes charts furnished by an insurance industry trade group that purport to show spectacular differences in prices for services between the U.S. and other countries. The international comparisons could depend on how one handles exchange rate conversions. On the other hand, the charts include comparisons between reimbursement rates of private plans and reimbursement rates from Medicare, with staggering results that cannot be attributed to currency conversion issues. For example, according to the trade association's ...
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marginalrevolution.com 2/6/2009 — 1. Paul Romer on creating good banks . 2. Another application of Modigliani-Miller ? 3. How fiscal stimulus fared in Japan . 4. More economic advisers for Obama , including Tyson and Feldstein on a council. 5. What is conservatism ?
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marginalrevolution.com 12/6/2008 — 1. Best science books of the year?: the best book list so far this year
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marginalrevolution.com 2/2/2009 — 1. Vote for Jesus ? 2. What would Larry Summers do ? 3. Beatle songs ranked ; but they are way wrong on many, for instance "I Wanna Be Your Man" is way worse than the excellent "Good Day Sunshine."
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marginalrevolution.com 6/27/2009 — 1. China theory of the day: The Chinese save so much to compete for mates . Should I believe it? 2. Paying interest on reserves , and why it should be easy to end nascent inflationary pressures. Do I believe it? 3. Markets in ...
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marginalrevolution.com 6/2/2009 — 1. Martin Feldstein criticizes cap and trade ; Robert Murphy takes a look at its costs . 2. Assorted links, meta-style . 3. A summary of the Garn-St. Germain Act and what it did and didn't do. 4. How Rhode Island accidentally decriminalized ...
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marginalrevolution.com 3/30/2009 — 1. Discussion of money illusion in economics journals : a graph (over time) and discussion.
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marginalrevolution.com 10/30/2008 — 1. The new Princeton University Press blog
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marginalrevolution.com 9/28/2009 — 1. Interview with Daniel Kahneman . 2. More on why executive compensation was not the problem . 3. The Irish pint isn't actually that traditional after all . 4. Hair dye as a countercyclical indicator . 5. "The true number may be lower" -- ...
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marginalrevolution.com 5/22/2009 — Brad DeLong and Matt Yglesias, trendsetters of the blogosphere if there were any, are assembling "assorted links" once a day or so. As do I and Yves Smith, not to mention the Herculean efforts of Mark Thoma. Does anyone click on ...
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