NB: archive.ph is NOT working, so I cannot help you get around paywalls. Let me know if you have a way!
- The Dutch are facing a “mest (manure) crisis” after 30 years of letting farmers put more and more animals on their land. Farmers want more subsidies for their shit. I say we should stop taking their shit! Watch [in Dutch, so add subs].
- Watch: How to get rich. (tl;dw? “be born rich” or “have a revolution”). It’s a good analysis. Related: The bank of mom & dad podcast
- Not surprising [link may not work]: People decide to have kids by considering a combination of the “cost of baby” and their “taste for baby” — or what economists would call a combination of a “slide” and “shift” on the demand curve, respectively.
- The call for “national disaster service” makes a lot of sense to me. First, young people (esp. guys) can benefit from service. Second, there’s a strong need for people to help, as the number of disasters increases.
- Holy shit, this is fascinating: Two AI “humans” discuss my book, Living with Water Scarcity, in a podcast format.
- I’ve been catching up with Mike Munger’s very interesting (to me) podcast “The Answer is Transactions Costs,” and here are a few good episodes: (a) The shit show of academic publishing, (b) Taking others into account, and (c) Permissionless innovation.
- Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actually work (Sorry, archive.ph links are NOT working 🙁
- Thinking about voting for Trump? Consider this: “Autocrats dump their democratic allies and keep the company of kleptocrats.“
- What Really Fueled the ‘East Asian Miracle’? It wasn’t land reform as much as forcing (kinda) people off farms and into cities. Dickens would be proud.
H/T to GK