Interesting links

  • Our World in Data (Max Roser)
    • Wonderful resource for facts and figures about the history of the world
  • Some Ariel Rubinstein links or just go to his website. His 2012 book Economic Fables, part memoir, part non-technical introduction to economic theory, gets my highest possible recommendation and is available to download for free here. Here‘s a Five Books interview with him for good measure.
    • Introspection for economists
  • What Happens Next Will Amaze You (Maciej Cegłowski, Sep 2015)
    • Privacy, advertising, techno-utopianism, San Francisco, venture capital = central planning
  • The Library of Babel (Jorge Luis Borges, 1941)
    • A short story about everything
  • On Exactitude in Science (Jorge Luis Borges, 1946)
    • A very short story about the point of models
  • This is Water (David Foster Wallace, 2005)
    • The famous Kenyon College commencement speech
  • Even Famous Female Economists Get No Respect (Justin Wolfers, 2015)
    • Gender bias in action
  • Postcapitalism (Paul Mason, 2015)
    • I wonder if too much is made of how information goods will transform everything, but this is definitely thought provoking and worth a read.
  • Cambridge Philosophers I: F. P. Ramsey (D. H. Mellor, 1995)
    • Reviewing Ramsey’s brief career in the 1920s, including his economics and his philosophy that speaks to economic theorizing.
  • Dead Flip Tutorials
    • For the pinball fans: flipper techniques illustrated with adorable gifs
  • On the Definition of Economics (pdf) (Roger E. Backhouse and Steven G. Medema, 2009)
    • Defining the discipline through the ages
  • Science in the age of selfies (Donald Geman and Stuart Geman, 2016)
    • Technology and the sociology of science and progress
  • Cheap Talk
    • Jeff Ely’s always-entertaining blog
  • The Secret Sins of Economists (Deirdre McCloskey, 2002)
    • A jaunty broadside against economists and their ways