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My server has had 2 memory slots die, my laptops have a dying hard drive, broken usb, broken audio, failing graphics card, and damaged space bar split between them. This has made turning on my computer difficult, not to mention using it. Hopefully things will be back to a more normal status sooner rather than [...]

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 [...]