Reading Feed (March 2022)

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Blog: Marginal Revolution | I thought these people wanted lower trade deficits? — "[A] world of higher net American capital flows into China is also a world with a lower American trade deficit with China. Which is it going to be? There are legitimate national security reasons for restricting some U.S. investments into China. But an analysis such as this should start by recognizing the relevant trade-offs."

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Comic: xkcd | Salary Negotiation

Blog: Marginal Revolution | What Operation Warp Speed Did, Didn’t and Can’t Do

Blog: Marginal Revolution | The political economy of doomscrolling

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Blog: Astral Codex Ten | Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring

Blog: Schneier on Security | Developer Sabotages Open-Source Software Package

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Blog: Market Design | Economics in a war zone: Tymofiy Mylovanov interviewed by Scott Kominers

Comic: xkcd | Galaxies

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Ukraine Post #5: Bits of Information

Blog: Astral Codex Ten | Mantic Monday 3/21/22

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Bounty Hunters Work

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Blog: Ben.Kuhn | Searching for outliers

Blog: Marginal Revolution | The Ukrainian economist who is fighting the Russians with logistics

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Blog: Market Design | Unraveling and reneging in the summer internship market

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Notes from Tavira, Portugal

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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Peginterferon Lambda is looking good

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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Covid 3/17/22: The Rise of BA.2

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Blog: Bet On It | Strong Cheap Signals

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Writing Matters

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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Ukraine #4: Prediction Market Movement Modeling

Blog: Market Design | Opioid prescription reductions and suicides

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Comic: xkcd | Deviled Eggs

Blog: Market Design | Subscription as an advanced market commitment for new antibiotics

Blog: Astral Codex Ten | Mantic Monday 3/14/22

Blog: Marginal Revolution | Effective Altruism is and will be more influential than you think — "When it comes to smart and many of the very smartest young people, the influence of Effective Altruism on their thought is radically underreported and underrepresented."

Blog: Bet On It | How to Talk to People: Econ vs. Psych

Blog: Marginal Revolution | US Pandemic Policy: Failures, Successes, and Lessons

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Ukraine #3: Decision Theory, Madman Theory and the Mafioso Nature

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Blog: JeffTK | War-prompted Disaster Planning

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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Emergent Ventures winners, eighteenth cohort — Zvi Mowshowitz!

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Blog: Marginal Revolution | The cultural evolution of love in literary history

Self: Icosian Reflections | So you want to work on biosecurity — an incomplete reading list (seeking suggestions!)

Blog: Astral Codex Ten | Progesterone Megadoses Might Be A Cheap Zulresso Substitute

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Ukraine Post #2: Options

Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Covid 3/10/22: We Have a Plan

Blog: Marginal Revolution | My Conversation with the excellent Sam Bankman-Fried

Self: Icosian Reflections | Onward, again — This January, I left my job as a trader at Jane Street to take a role leading a project at the FTX Foundation! More at the link. See also Twitter thread.