Interesting stuff

NB: archive.ph is NOT working, so I cannot help you get around paywalls. Let me know if you have a way!

  1. 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].
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Holy shit, this is fascinating: Two AI “humans” discuss my book, Living with Water Scarcity, in a podcast format.
  6. 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.
  7. Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actually work (Sorry, archive.ph links are NOT working 🙁
  8. Thinking about voting for Trump? Consider this: “Autocrats dump their democratic allies and keep the company of kleptocrats.
  9. 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

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Author: David Zetland

I'm a political-economist from California who now lives in Amsterdam.

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