Assorted links

1. An entertaining obituary (from a couple of years ago)

2. Thoughts on choosing the players on your soccer team.

3. Good for Monica.

4. Emotional support animals on the frontier.

Hat tip on #2 to Peter Dolton

Dissertation prizes

Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award

HCEO Dissertation Prize

Both require a little bit of work, but if you win, you get some money and some attention.

Note that both cover limited substantive domains.

Assorted links

1. The War on Drugs marches on .. to cotton candy.

2. Communists left behind in Mozambique

3. On populism in France. I think there is much to be gained from thinking about populism in terms of a cultural dispute between social classes.

4. WaPo interview with Charles Koch from a couple of years ago.

5. Advice triage

Fusion?

As this article in Quartz notes, fusion power is always 20 years off. I can remember reading that in Galaxy and Analog - two of the science fiction magazines to which my engineer father subscribed - when I was growing up. But the Quartz piece sounds a bit more serious. This would be a game changer.

Yoram Bauman's standup routine at the AEA meetings in Atlanta

Book: None of My Business by P.J. O'Rourke

The new (last fall) book from P.J. is not his best work ever, and the contents do not quite match the description on the cover, which suggests a narrative on a single top (like his book on Adam Smith) rathre than a collection of loosely related essays, but if you usually like P.J.'s work, you'll like this too.

Amazon link

Barnes and Nobel link