Links for 3rd September, 2018

  1. RTA’s, it would seem, are not the cure.
  2. A bank of data about the world.
  3. Mihir Sharma on the importance of free trade.
  4. Tyler Cowen on ownership and changing norms around it.
  5. Irvin Yalom on dying.

Links for 2nd September, 2018

  1. On the need for more urbanization. Devika Kher argues that this will help empower women – couldn’t agree more. It’s the how to get more urbanization going that remains (at least to me) a puzzle.
  2. Salil Tripathi on VS Naipaul.
  3. On incentives for politics and politicians.
  4. Is India banging on the ceiling?
  5. Arvind Panagariya on trade liberalization.

Links for 1st September, 2018

  1. On the community of advantage.
  2. Asset prices and wealth inequality.
  3. On (the importance of) unruliness.
  4. Speaking of unruliness, Uber and New York City.
  5. One auction too many in India.