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A week of links

Links this week:

  1. Arnold Kling’s review of Complexity and the Art of Public Policy.
  2. Are some diets mass murder? HT: Eric Crampton
  3. Social conservatism correlates with lower cognitive ability test scores, but economic conservatism correlates with higher scores.”
  4. More on lead and crime.
  5. A risk averse culture. HT: Eric Crampton
  6. Welfare conditional on birth control.
  7. We may regret the eclipse of a world where 6,000 different languages were spoken as opposed to just 600, but there is a silver lining in the fact that ever more people will be able to communicate in one language that they use alongside their native one.” HT: Steve Stewart Williams
  8. If you want to feel older, read this. HT: Rory Sutherland