1. The economics department at Genova has an electric diesel submarine.
2. “In other words, many weird cosmic topologies are still entirely consistent with the observed data.”
3. A scenario for AGI in three years?
4. Arnold Kling’s favorite business books.
5. The social value of better hurricane forecasting is high.
6. The European Parliament elections in perspective.
7. Gideon Rachmann in the FT on South Africa.
Many people seem to like the new movie Hit Man, but for me the moral dissonance was too great and the plot line I eventually found implausible.
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Greg Mankiw’s Blog: Economic Theory Summer Camp
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Saturday assorted links
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Germany projection of the day
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Minimum wage hikes and robots
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