Icosian Reflections

…a tendency to systematize and a keen sense

that we live in a broken world.

Reading Feed (February 2020)


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | How has my thinking on prizes vs. grants evolved?


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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Book Review: The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work

Blog: The Grumpy Economist | Wealth and taxes -- Overview


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | My Conversation with Garett Jones


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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Book Review: Just Giving

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Why are we letting FDA regulations limit our number of coronavirus tests?


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Blog: Ben.Kuhn | You don't need to work on hard problems

Blog: Ben.Kuhn | You don't need to work on hard problems

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Who is Wealthy?

Blog: Market Design | Exchanges for single earrings, odd shoes


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Blog: Schneier on Security | Policy vs Technology


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Blog: Market Design | School choice, centralized and decentralized, in Japan, a century ago, by Tanaka, Narita and Moriguchi


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | In praise of art books

Blog: The Grumpy Economist | Health spending


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Science sentences to ponder: citations vs. innovations


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Blog: World Optimization | https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1228668492972462083I find Robin Hanson’s reaction here...

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Does GDPR even boost privacy?


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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Sleep Support: An Individual Randomized Controlled Trial


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Blog: What's New | Some slides from Basel


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Toward a simple theory of YouTube and gaming


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Friday assorted links

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Penny Goldberg resigns as Chief Economist at the World Bank


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | “Boring Friends”

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Why are people getting worse at The Price is Right?


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Blog: Overcoming Bias | Respectable Rants

Blog: Marginal Revolution | What causes car deaths and how to limit them


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | The importance of family structure — was the nuclear family a mistake?

Blog: Gates Notes | Why we swing for the fences


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | 10% more democracy?


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Coronavirus multilateral insurance markets in everything


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Blog: Marginal Revolution | What I’ve been reading


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Blog: GiveWell | Introducing our new Managing Director: Dr. Neil Buddy Shah

Blog: Marginal Revolution | How public intellectuals can extend their shelf lives


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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Suicide Hotspots Of The World

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Coronavirus would be worse without the web

Blog: Market Design | Market Design at 25, May 14-15 in Washington DC


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Blog: Market Design | Presenting evidence 'anecdataly' (using anecdata)

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Why the coronavirus might boost Trump’s reelection prospects

Blog: Marginal Revolution | The private school experiment in Liberia


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Blog: Overcoming Bias | Decision Theory Remains Neglected