Link: Nuts and civilizations
California Sunday Magazine has a feature profiling farmers losing their water to nut growers in California’s San Joaquin Valley: “Dry”. It’s a story of wells...
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Alfred Crosby interviewed
Last week I linked to an article about the dispersal of the potato (“How the Potato Changed the World”). Smithsonian also has an interview with Alfred Crosby...
Leadership prediction and investment risk
The Guardian has printed an excerpt of economics Nobelist Daniel Kahneman’s new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. The story addresses the question of why invest...
Neandertal anti-defamation files, 13
From The Economist, “What’s wrong with America’s economy?”
Fogel profile
The NY Times has a profile of economist Robert W. Fogel (“Technology Advances; Humankind Supersizes”). Fogel, along with other historical economists, has wor...
Nowhere the rational man
David Sloan Wilson has been posting a series on behavioral economics (“Economics and evolution as different paradigms”). This, broadly speaking, is based on ...
Perils of modeling
You’re not coming here for economic analysis, but I found this Wired article on quants, risk, and the financial crisis useful:
Cliometrics from Cicero
I happened to be reading about the scholastic revival of Cicero, in the book Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler. It’s a really interesting...