Holiday Videos!
And...the REAL Santa Claus is the US Government!
Labels: free market videos, holidays
Time itself is bought and sold. The spreading fear of growing old contains a thousand foolish games that we play.
Labels: free market videos, holidays
Labels: asynchronous exchange, euvoluntary exchange, happy happy joy joy, the gift that keeps on giving
Labels: euvoluntary exchange, morality plays
Labels: men have no clue, sex
Labels: academic politics, The Grand Game
Labels: economic history, transactions costs, transportation
Labels: development, economics
Labels: videos
Labels: farmers, I'm from the government and I'm here to help you, jobs
Labels: articles to read, psychology
Earlier this year, LeBron and I wrote about the end of football in Grantland. We speculated that it could take 10-15 years before football was knocked off its perch as the number 1 US sport.
Labels: football, never predict anything least of all the future
Labels: academia, the end of my career, university professors
Labels: college life, fit to be tied, sex
Labels: articles to read, elections
Labels: academic politics, economics is hard but not that hard
Labels: divided we rise, marriage, you can tune a piano but you can't kill your relatives
Labels: chilipunk'd, videos
Labels: nationalism, sugary drinks, The Grand Game
Labels: Chile, el beisbol, kids
As part of the Harden trade, the Thunder received a protected first round pick from the Toronto Raptors. If it turns out to be one of the top 3 picks or worse than the 14th pick, the Thunder would have to wait at least another year to get the pick.
Labels: arbitrage in a basketball economy, never predict anything least of all the future, what is dead can never die
Labels: a ninja by any other name, football, gettin' er done
Ex-UNC prof Paul Frampton has now been convicted of drug running in Argentina and sentenced to 4 years, 8 months.
Labels: crime and punishment, legalize it, tell me about your drugs, what's in the water in Chapel Hill?
Labels: daddy issues, evolution, mother knows best, sex
Labels: links
Ah Japan, the land where adult diaper sales now outpace baby diaper sales!
Labels: will the last person in Japan please turn out the lights
Labels: evolution, health care, old dog
Daron Acemoglu may well be the pre-eminent economist of our time. Acemoglu and Johnson (along with other coauthors) have written massively cited and highly influential journal articles.
Labels: development is hard, institutions, never predict anything least of all the future
Labels: down to the sea in boats, wind power blows
Labels: lobbying, papers to read
Labels: immigration, politics, Republicans are hopeless hypocrites
Labels: free market videos, sugary drinks
Labels: africa, butter, the sleeping giant to our north, white people are everywhere
This morning, Tim Harford tweeted me over to this post by Owen Barder, along with the message that it, "should make me furious".
Labels: aid, I love Twitter, we are so screwed