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Assorted links
2010-01-04 20:19:20
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1. Ask Felix Salmon anything, via Chris F. Masse.
2. Brad DeLong on studying heterogeneous capital.
3. Where does Chinese inflation go?
4. Via Felix Salmon, very good Sana'a image.
5. How Bill Gates w...
Markets in everything, South Korean faux funeral edition
2010-01-04 16:35:00
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Jung, a slight 39-year-old with an undertaker's blue suit and a preacher's demeanor, is a resolute counselor on the ever-after who welcomes clients with the invitation, "OK, today let's get close to death."
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The charity tax
2010-01-04 15:16:13
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The estimated social pressure cost of saying no to a solicitor is $3.5 for an in-state charity and $1.4 for an out-of-state charity. Our welfare calculations suggest that our door-to-door fund-raising campaigns...
Soviet Growth & American Textbooks
2010-01-04 12:35:00
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In the 1961 edition of his famous textbook of economic principles, Paul Samuelson wrote that GNP in the Soviet Union was about half that in the United States but the Soviet Union was growing faster. As a re...
In the 1961 edition of his famous textbook of economic principles, Paul Samuelson wrote that GNP in the Soviet Union was about half that in the United States but the Soviet Union was growing faster. As a re...
Price discrimination
2010-01-04 01:26:35
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The founder said he had heard of Cubans practically making a living by buying and selling items through Revolico. A regular customer said he bought Windows 7 from the site for about $5. After calling the number...
My visit to Yemen
2010-01-03 18:32:00
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With Yemen in the news I thought I would recount my trip to the country in 1996 or so. I spent five or six days in Sana'a, the capital, and I remember the following:
1. At the biggest and best hotel in tow...
"Fruitful Decade for Many in the World"
2010-01-03 13:05:52
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My NYT column today is about how good the last ten years have been for China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and much of Africa. It is not, as Time magazine has suggested, the worst decade in human history. ...
Assorted links
2010-01-02 18:25:00
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1. Is Somali pirate cash causing a Kenyan property boom?
2. What is the hardest language?
3. Markets in everything: how hackers check their work on viruses.
4. Has the anti-foreclosure program done more harm...
Advice for your children: 2010-2020
2010-01-02 12:38:00
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Chug asks:
I'm curious what kind of advice you're giving Yana (as the proxy for "college age people") about the next 5 to 10 years regarding debt, investing, jobs, etc. Not Yana-specific advice, but gene...
Assorted Movie Links
2010-01-02 12:33:14
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* Larry Ribstein on How Movies Created the Financial Crisis.
* A perceptive review of Avatar. The best graf:
...[T]he more blatant lesson of Avatar is not that American imperialism is bad, but that in...
