A week of links

Author

Jason Collins

Published

January 9, 2015

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