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Assorted links
1. Undercover economist eats with Naked Chef.
2. Genetics and success, from Atlantic Monthly.
3. List of hot people in Tokyo.
4. Terse answers from Uwe Tellkamp. I guess he is tired from having written an almost 1000-page book. I really liked this one.
5. Summary of recent inequality trends.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on November 12, 2009 at 12:50 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
So, is wealth lognormally distributed or what? Quite a bit of econophyics literature
says wealth is power-law distributed, or at least the upper end of the distribution.
Posted by: Barkley Rosser at Nov 12, 2009 1:14:31 PM
seeing the foodie post give me the opening to ask Tyler
What do you think of eating sting ray, as a diner and as an economist?
It seems that the marketing of shark because of depletion of other fish stocks has resulted in an explosion of sting rays, one of the sharks favorite dishes. The sting rays are now chowing down on clams, especially the commercial beds, so the idea is to sell diners on the idea that ray is a really cool thing to eat so fishermen will start over fishing ray to save the over fished clams while allowing the shark to continue being over fished so commercial fishing can survive its over fishing of tuna and salmon....
No one has explained how property rights can be assigned to fish who need to live out a life cycle in the waters of at least a dozen different nations plus waters that no one is allowed to claim. And no one has explained how one critical part of the food chain for one species can be assigned to a different property owner that the property owner of the top predator and of the prey.
Posted by: mulp at Nov 12, 2009 1:36:19 PM
Gee, nothing on the growth of yeast in beer; I think that is exponential growth with a cliff. Same with yogurt, cheese, mining guano.
Posted by: mulp at Nov 12, 2009 1:47:17 PM
I can think of a way to assign property rights to fish, but it would result in monopoly.
Posted by: josh at Nov 12, 2009 3:12:20 PM
Thank you for another great post. I look forward to many more entries with high quality info.
Posted by: fit flops at Nov 13, 2009 2:09:02 AM
I loved the article on Genetics and Success and can't wait for the print edition to hit my mailbox.
Actually, a 19th century "chick lit" novelist painted a detailed and loving picture of the quintessential "orchid child" under both sets of conditions. It ends "Reader, I married him."
Posted by: Pat Mathews at Nov 13, 2009 8:33:20 AM
Do we understand enough about the Neanderthal genome to know whether they shared "orchid gene" characteristics with modern humans (and rhesus monkeys, and apparently no other primates)?
Posted by: anonymous at Nov 15, 2009 8:27:24 PM
