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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.

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

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

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

More Torture Info From Senate Committee

Economist.com: The Endowment Effect and Evolutionary Psychology

In China, Fascination With Obama’s Skin Color - washingtonpost.com

Marginal Revolution: Bottomfeeder
(tags: food)

Vinod Khosla - All Biofuels Are Not The Same - washingtonpost.com

Trying to solve the long-term nuclear waste storage problem
I hear a call for space elevators.
(tags: energy environment nuclear)

FT.com / Comment & analysis / Analysis - For Le Monde and the French press, the news is nearly all bad

Good surveillance: satellites watch for [...]

Mr. Obama’s Neighborhood
I would not agree with all the characterizations made of HP, but overall, well written.

FT.com / Columnists / Christopher Caldwell - Web gossip is forever

Healthcare Economist · High Quality Hospitals Near You

Economist’s View: Is McCain Confused?

The Kozinski mess (Lessig Blog)
(tags: privacy media)

FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - Let the markets solve the energy crisis
(tags: energy economy oil)

Job creation? - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog

Some thoughts on the saying, “All models are wrong, but some are useful”

The Ambrosini Critique » Blog Archive » More reasons why we should treat morals as ethical preferences

FT.com / Home UK / UK - Manufacturers score victory in patent rights ruling

TED | Talks | Seyi Oyesola: Rich hospital, poor hospital (video)
Finding medical technologies appropriate to the environments in which they operate.

Cable: deregulation good for consumers; Ars: [...]

Just who is this ‘Stephen Colbert’ character? - CNN.com

Bio-debatable: Food vs. fuel
(tags: biofuels environment food)

Grasping Reality with Both Hands: The Semi-Daily Journal Economist Brad DeLong
(tags: economics finance regulation)

Climate change economics | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists

FT.com / World - Obama calls McCain tax plans ‘outrageous’

FT.com / World - Geithner stresses Fed role in dollar stance

When corrections fail: the persistence of political misperceptions

Economist’s View: Obama [...]