Posts Useful for Teaching

On Learning

• Andrew Budson and Elizabeth Kensinger's Memory Tips →

• Why Focusing on Grades Is a Barrier to Learning—Gerald Knesek

• Study Less, Study Smart—Marty Lobdell

• 34 Self-Care Tips to Do Before Bedtime

On Writing

• Shitty First Drafts—Anne Lamott, from Bird by Bird

Intermediate Macro

• Technology Shock Stories: How a Steel Box Changed the World

• Eli Dourado Highlights Our Purified Solow Residual

Happiness

• Jordan Peterson on the Distinction Between Tragedy and Evil

• Getting Free Of Self-Importance Is The Key To Happiness—Polly Young-Eisendrath

• Arthur Brooks on How to Blunt Mental Pain

• What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness—Robert Waldinger

• Ryan Holiday: 21 Stoic Quotes To Live Your Life By

Measuring National Well-Being

• Pushing Aside GDP for a Measure of Human Well-Being Turns Out to be Very, Very Difficult. Ask Dan Benjamin

• Ori Heffetz: Measuring 'The Good Life—Alternative Metrics for National Wellbeing

• Measuring Progress & Well-being: Is GDP Growth Enough?

• Miles's Tweet Storm on Interpersonal Comparison of Utility

• Noah Smith: 4 Reasons Why GDP is a Useful Number

• Dan Benjamin: Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity

Political Polarization and Wokeness

• Economics Is Unemotional—And That's Why It Could Help Bridge America's Partisan Divide

• Us and Them

• The Right Amount of Wokeness

• Getting the Best from Wokeness by Having the Right Mean, Reducing the Variance and Mitigating the Losses from Extreme Values

• Although the United States is Not Woke Enough, Its Universities are Now Too Woke

• Alexandra C. Feldberg and Tami Kim: Whites Get Better Customer Service than Blacks, Who in Turn Get Better Service than Asian-Americans

• On Critical Race Theory

• Virtues for Economists

Ethics and Choice

• Martin Luther King's Gospel of Solidarity: Improving the Lot of the Poor of All Races—Matthew Yglesias

• R. Meredith Elkins: We Need to Help Kids Be Braver

• Meeting the Enemy: A Feminist Comes to Terms with the Men's Rights Movement—Cassie Jaye

• Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?—Kate Julian

• 25 Taboo Questions About History and Society—Rudyard Lynch

• Raj Chetty on How Cross-Class Interactions When Young are a Key to Poor Kids Rising

• What David Laibson and Andrei Shleifer are Teaching for Behavioral Economics—Jeffrey Ohl

• A New Take on the ‘Marshmallow Test’: When it Comes to Resisting Temptation, a Child's Cultural Upbringing Matters—Lisa Marshall

• Jonathan Haidt and Jordan Peterson on the Dimensions of Morality, Political Differences, and the Perilous State of the University

• Defending Jordan Peterson

• Miles's Personality in 10 Facets of the Big Five

• How People Differ from One Another Psychologically: IQ and the Big 5—Jordan Peterson

• Although the United States is Not Woke Enough, Its Universities are Now Too Woke

• Alexandra C. Feldberg and Tami Kim: Whites Get Better Customer Service than Blacks, Who in Turn Get Better Service than Asian-Americans

• Jarvis Givens on Education and Learning as a Way to Fight Back against Racism

• Michael Sandel on the Dignity of Work

• The Curse of Meritocratic Hubris

• Steve Faktor's 3 Rules to Avoid Poverty

• The Source of about Half of the Gap Between Judgements of Male and Female CVs in Economics at Promotion Time—A Conjecture

• Justin Wolfers: More Women Than Men Are Going to College. That May Change the Economy.

Jordan Peterson

• Tom Bartlett: What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

• Defending Jordan Peterson

• Jonathan Haidt and Jordan Peterson on the Dimensions of Morality, Political Differences, and the Perilous State of the University

• Jordan Peterson Shows How to Engage Your Audience by Respecting Them

• Jordan B. Peterson on the True Purpose of a University Education

• How People Differ from One Another Psychologically: IQ and the Big 5—Jordan Peterson

• Miles's Personality in 10 Facets of the Big Five

• Gratitude for Challenges

• Fatal Flaws Don't Have To Be Fatal

• Jordan Peterson's Argument for the Transcendent Importance of the Religious Thread in Human Life that is Totally Consistent with There Being No Supernatural

• Jordan Peterson: The Virtue of Dangerousness

• Jordan Peterson on Ideological Possession: 'You don't Have Ideas; Ideas Have You'

• Jordan Peterson: No One Gets Away with Anything

• Jordan Peterson on Jung, Human Potential and the Imitation of Christ

• Jordan Peterson on Religion

• Jordan Peterson on How there *is* Reality *and* Values are a Part of Science

• Jordan Peterson on the Human Ideal

• Jordan Peterson on the Downside and Upside of the Patriarchy

• The 21st-Century Malaise of Males

• Jordan Peterson on Ideological Possession: 'You don't have Ideas; Ideas have You'

• Jordan Peterson on What Those at the Top Owe Society: ‘It's Not Reasonable to Destroy the Game You're Winning’

• The Good Mother Fails—Jordan Peterson

• Sometimes the Devil You Don't Know is Better than the Devil You Do

• How the Historical Jesus Set the Oppressed Free

Statistics

• Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test: Affluence, Not Willpower, Seems to Be What’s Behind Some Kids’ Capacity to Delay Gratification—Jessica McCrory Calarco

• Evidence on Charter Schools: 'Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City' by Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer

• The Supposed Health Benefits of Moderate Drinking are a Crock

• More Evidence for the Use It or Lose It Hypothesis for Dementia Prevention: Better Vision Seems to Help Ward Off Dementia

• 'Vibration of Effects' as a Tool for Seeing How Sensitive an Associational Study is to Tweaks

• 'Expanded Contraceptive Access Linked To Increase In College Completion Among Women In Colorado'— Sara Yeatman, James Flynn, Amanda Stevenson, Katie Genadek, Stefanie Mollborn and Jane Menken

• How the Historical Rejection of Miasma Theory Made Scientists Slow to Recognize that COVID is Airborne

• Evidence that Air Pollution Messes Up Babies' Gut Microbiome—with Many Downstream Consequences

• An Example of Needing to Worry about Reverse Causality: Satisfaction with Aging and Objective Aging Outcomes

• A Linear Model for the Effects of Diet and Exercise on Health is a Big Advance over Popular Thinking

• Some Low Hanging Fruit for Government Policy: Paying Benefits and Wages to Low-Income Folks Weekly

• Insufficient Sleep Contributes to Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer and Neurodegenerative Disorders—Ken Wright

• Optimism Seems to Lengthen Women's Lives

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Can Prevent Major Depression

• Growing Evidence for the Safety and Efficacy of Psychedelics Could Lead to Better Treatments for Anxiety, Depression, Pain, and Other Tough Conditions—Allison Eck

• Noise Pollution is More than a Nuisance. It’s a Health Risk. —Stephanie Dutchen

• A Little Bit of Therapy Goes a Long Way

• On 'Does Welfare Prevent Crime? The Criminal Justice Outcomes of Youth Removed from SSI' by Manasi Deshpande and Michael G. Mueller-Smith

• Peter Attia and Rick Johnson on How Kidney Inflammation Helps Explain Why Some People are Sensitive to Salt and Others Not

• Exercise Makes You Smarter

• Suggestive Evidence that Vitamin D Supplements Lower Risk of Autoimmune Disease

• A Fact to Keep in Mind When Parsing the Rise in Obesity: The Decline in Smoking Needs to Be Taken into Account

• An Example of Ideology Leading to Bad Statistics and Social Injustice

Monetary Policy

• How Having Negative Interest Rate Policy in Its Toolkit Would Make the Fed Braver in Confronting Inflation with Needed Rate Hikes—A Tweetstorm

• Brad DeLong Confirms that Not Having Negative Interest Rate Policy in the Monetary Policy Toolkit

• How a Toolkit Lacking a Full Strength Negative Interest Rate Option Led to the Current Inflationary Surge Makes People Afraid of Vigorous Rate Hikes to Control Inflation

• Miles, Brad DeLong and Noah Smith: Hexapodia Podcast #1

• Nominal Illusion: Are People Understanding Real Versus Nominal Interest Rates?

• Ricardo Reis on Inflation Expectations

• Why the Fed Should Keep the Output Gap Equal to Zero

• Analyzing the Great Depression Using Supply and Demand for the Monetary Base

• Supply and Demand for the Monetary Base with a Cap on Reserves, a Zero Interest Rate on Reserves and a Negative Reverse Repo Rate

• Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball on Negative Interest Rates and Inflation—IMF Podcasts

• The Future of Inflation—Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball

• Planet Money and Gillian Brunet on Price Controls during World War II as Perspective on the Debate about Price Controls Now

Business Cycle Theory

• Beatrice Cherrier's References on the History of Thought in Post-1970s Macroeconomics

• Eli Dourado Highlights Our Purified Solow Residual

Finance

• Matthew Yglesias: If the Platinum Coin is Too Weird, Meet High-Yield Bonds

• The 'Portfolio Rebalancing in General Equilibrium' Interview

Political Economy

• Miles, Brad DeLong and Noah Smith: Hexapodia Podcast #1

• Miles's Tweetstorm of Favorite Passages from Noah Smith's Review of Brad DeLong's book ‘Slouching Towards Utopia’

• Brad DeLong on Jacob Soll, Friedrich Hayek, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman and the Free Market

Basic Facts

• Global Population Density—Visual Capitalist

• Brad DeLong Boils Down the Spine of Economic History in One Table

• Noah Smith on the Triumphs of Renewable Energy Technology

Economic Growth

• Noah Smith: The Most Likely Reason Mexico isn't Rich is that it is in a Druglord Civil War

• With a Cobb-Douglas Production Function, the Differential Equation for the Solow Growth Model has a Closed-Form Solution—Tsering Sherpa and Miles Kimball

• Technology Shock Stories: How a Steel Box Changed the World

• Noah Smith on the Triumphs of Renewable Energy Technology

Housing Policy and Technology

• Building an Affordable House

• Political Victories for the Supply-Side in Housing: The Long March of the YIMBYs—Noah Smith

• How to Get Abundant Affordable Housing

• Zachary Sonntag: How the Need for Affordable Middle Housing Runs Up Against Zoning Laws

• Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math

• How Do You Make Middle Housing More Appealing? Make It Look Like a Single-Family Home—Zakary Sonntag

Education Policy

• How to Foster Transformative Innovation in Higher Education

Immigration

• How the US and Its Allies Can Weaken the Russian Army in Ukraine

Futurism

• Georgism ... In Space! —Sam Harsimony

Supply-Side Liberalism

• What is a Supply-Side Liberal?

• Christopher Condon: Biden Is Rebranding Reagan’s Supply-Side Economics to Save His Agenda