Marginal Revolution

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.

Twitter search of the day

Employer mandate.

How many of you use this function?

Here's a search on Karl Malden and Ben Gordon (now a Piston).  Besides entering your own name, what are the best methods for getting quality information out of Twitter?  Is there a successful hybrid blog/Twitter format, where the blogger pairs with Twitter to produce a better aggregator than either could do alone?

Assorted links

1. Ezra Klein's new food column.

2. Washington Post markets in everything?  The paper has yet to respond, so do be aware there may be another side to this story. 

3. Why WalMart caved.

4. 1959.

5. The Kissing Experiment (2009).

6. The end of free banking in contemporary China.

7. California: The Haves and Have-Nots.

Kindle edition of *Create Your Own Economy*

Now ready for pre-order.  You get it July 9, the date of the book release.

Assorted links

1. Boston Globe story about Peter Leeson.

2. Seth Godin weighs in on Gladwell vs. Anderson.

3. Tractor Square Dance.

4. The macroeconomics of Australia, with a poke at Kiwis at the end.

5. Free Saudi wedding for quitting smoking.