Marginal Revolution

Assorted links

1. The new Lars van Trier film is extreme.

2. John Nye: an economist walks into a bar, short podcast, direct link here.

3. There are seven years of health reform benefits, not ten.

4. Unusual hypotheses about John Milton.

5. Via Bamber, which is the most humane state?  And would you rather lose the right to vote or the right to bear arms, state-by-state?  Do note this is user-submitted data and not a random sample; here are more results.

Assorted links

1. Thinking clearly about inequality, by Will Wilkinson.

2. China silly forecast of the day.

3. Inaugural issue of Rejecta Mathematica is out.

4. Markets in everything: the new Cheap Trick album is available on 8-track.

5. How to get your wallet returned if you lose it: carry a baby photo in there.

6. CIT battlelines.

Assorted links

1. New blog: How Books Got Their Titles; the guy's other blog is even better.

2. Via Chug, bailout art.

3. Interview with Perry Mehrling and Arnold Kling comments.

4. In defense of The Cheesecake Factory (p.s. I don't believe it).

5. The future of cultural signaling.

6. Michael Martin on CYOE and Hayek's Sensory Order.

Assorted links

1. Reviews of Create Your Own Economy here, here, and Robert Wenzel likes me better here.

2. Virginia Postrel reviews Free; and don't forget Virginia on kidneys.

3. Revamping the White House art collection.

4. The public choice theory of Christopher Hayes.

5. Superfreakonomics is due out October 20.

Assorted links

1. The slide toward protectionism in the Great Depression, by Irwin and Eichengreen.

2. BookGlutton.com: write in a collective virtual margin for your books.

3. More on Marilyn vos Savant.

4. Newsweek Q&A about Create Your Own Economy.

5. Cultural snobbery and the Kindle.

6. Time magazine on homosexuality, circa 1966.

Assorted links

1. Fischer Black, futurist.

2. Robin Hanson's theory of academia.

3. EconomistsdoitwithModels, from Harvard; stickers are here.

4. The naming of Jane Jacobs Way.

Assorted links

1. Markets in everything: Do Stuff for Money.

2. Ezra Klein on administrative costs.

3. Jeff Friedman's Critical Review, special issue on the financial crisis, $$ but recommended; view the abstracts here.

4. Our culture of (pornographic) small bits (totally safe link).

5. Michael Lewis and derivatives and AIG.

6. Superb Dave Leonhardt column on health care and prostate cancer.

Assorted links

1. Australia markets in everything, naval edition.

2. Profile of Mark Thoma.

3. Via Kat, the new Dan Ariely chapters.

4. Short WSJ write-up of (part of) Create Your Own Economy.

5. Does job retraining work?

6. Which movies impress professional stuntmen?

7. The culture that is German

Assorted links

1. There seems to be a Flynn Effect for memory.

2. How to use Kindle in foreign countries.

3. Few people want to improve their empathy.

4. Should Manhattan buses be free?

5. Negative interest rates in Sweden; not everyone likes the idea.

Voice (and loyalty)

After several of you complained, the Kindle price, for Create Your Own Economy, has been lowered to $14.27, from $20 something.  Maybe someone at Amazon reads the comments at MR (really, I had nothing to do with it).

What other prices would you like changed?  Health insurance -- how much should that cost?  A barrel of oil?  Just let them know.