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Fannie/Freddie further follies - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog

What to drink with your frites, I mean freedom fries - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog

Anti-Dismal: The centipede game and chess players
Screw the prisoner’s dilemma. I have always found the centipede game to be the most mind blowing game in game theory.

Tyler writes:

Bargaining with your roommates
Joseph, a loyal MR reader, asks:
I recently leased my first apartment…with a friend who just graduated from college with me. It’s a nice apartment, and spacious, but it has one bedroom that is larger and nicer (better views, bigger closet, more windows) than the other.
We’re looking for the most equitable way [...]

Eighteenth-century “proto-globalisation” | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
Basically, war and disease did more to stop globalization prior to the 19th century than technology helped to improve it during the 19th century.
(tags: history Economics globalization)

The Evidence Gap - Weighing the Costs of a CT Scan’s Look Inside the Heart - Series - NYTimes.com

Economics & Sci-Fi: Two Great Tastes…
… that don’t go well together?
I happened to see a few episodes from season I of Masters of Science Fiction and it got me thinking…
Economics is a science (yes it is, don’t argue with me!), so why is there no economic fiction? Sure, from Physics you get time travel and [...]

More at 1986.
Brad DeLong writes Impeach Antonin Scalia. Impeach Him Now:

Outsourced to Hilzoy:
Obsidian Wings: Returned To The Battlefield: In his dissent in Boumedienne (pdf), Justice Scalia wrote: “At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantanamo Bay have returned to the battlefield.”
When I read this, I wondered about the word ‘returned’, since it seems [...]

Robin Hanson writes, To What Expose Kids?:

State courts recently rebuked Texas Child Protective Services and told them to return 440 kids to their polygamous Mormon parents. The main complaint I’ve heard is that these teen girls can not really consent to polygamous marriage because they were not exposed enough to the rest of the [...]

Economist’s View: “Is Income Volatility Really Rising?”

This is the type of software that should be implemented for the library, especially with books being increasingly locked away. Recreating the browsing experience is something that has been (somewhat) done with some music apps and the flipping interface with album art. That is the kind of thing I was looking for with books. It [...]

The popularity of statistics?
Jennifer pointed me to this site, which states that “white people hate math” but “are fascinated by ‘the power of statistics’ since the math has already been done for them.” I’d like to believe this is true (the part about white people liking statistics, not the part about the math having already [...]

Levitt and Warsh have both commented on some of the issues surrounding the announced institute. I have a couple issues of my own. One is that ousting the university’s bookstore from its current location would be a shame. It does a great job of capturing the essence of the university’s culture in a nice little [...]

A Non-Socratic Dialogue on Social Welfare Functions: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong’s Webjournal

More Torture Info From Senate Committee