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09-24-2011, 06:37 AM
The weekend is a great time to catch up on some of the reading you skipped during the week.* We hope you enjoy this set of long-form links.
Finance
Roger Lowenstein on what the crackdown on insider trading means for investors, hedge funds and the market.* (NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/magazine/in-the-insider-trading-war-market-beaters-beware.html?_r=2&ref=business&pagewanted=all))
Sunspots, animal spirits and extrinsic volatility.* (The Psy-Fi Blog (http://www.psyfitec.com/2011/09/crash-2012-sunspots-are-coming.html))
Scientists turning into quants is not a new phemenon.* (Magic Maths Money (http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-was-first-quant.html) via @moneyscience (https://twitter.com/#%21/moneyscience/statuses/116501946445209600))
Roger Ebert on the future of Netflix ($NFLX (http://stocktwits.com/symbol/NFLX)).* (Businessweek (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/netflix-hastings-get-it-right-09222011.html))
Economics
What does the government use econometric models of the economy that nobody believes work?* (American (http://american.com/archive/2011/september/the-soothsayers-of-macroeconometrics))
Why monetary policy is ineffective in a post-credit economy.* (Macroeconomic Resilience (http://www.macroresilience.com/2011/09/22/operation-twist-and-the-limits-of-monetary-policy-in-a-credit-economy/))
The increasing payoff to beauty.* (The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8765360/Does-being-ugly-make-you-poor.html))
Why we need more population density, not less.* (Daily Ticker (http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/expensive-urban-real-estate-drives-away-people-high-150312121.html))
Psychology
Why we spend more when we are relaxed.* (The Frontal Cortex (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/why-being-relaxed-makes-us-spend-too-much-money/all/1))
No one is immune from the dangers of confirmation bias.* (The Psy-Fi Blog (http://www.psyfitec.com/2011/09/honti-4-disconfirm-disconfirm.html))
On the virtues of unconscious thought in making difficult decisions.* (The Frontal Cortex (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/how-should-we-make-hard-decisions/))
Hayes Davenport, “How is it possible, then, that paid experts pick at about the same level of accuracy as any armchair prognosticator?”* (Freakonomics (http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/22/picking-the-nfl-playoffs-how-the-experts-fumble-the-snap/))
Society
We now live in the most peaceable time in human history.* Why?* (WSJ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576583203589408180.html))
What does war mean when it is fought by robots?* (New York Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/sep/29/predators-and-robots-war/))
Reuters, Bloomberg and the future of journalism.* (The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/print/2011/09/reuters-bloomberg-and-the-future-of-journalism/245360/))
RIP, REM.* A collection on links on the breakup of the first indie megaband.* (The Browser (http://thebrowser.com/topics/rem-split))
Inside the world of “map obsessives.”* (Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/2303841/))
Baseball
How the Boston Red Sox have put into action the lessons of Moneyball.* (SI (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1190632/1/index.htm))
The aftermath of Moneyball has been better for Michael Lewis than Billy Beane.* (NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/magazine/for-billy-beane-winning-isnt-everything.html))
The story of a real life Crash Davis.* (Grantland (http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6991235/crash-davis-rides-again))
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Finance
Roger Lowenstein on what the crackdown on insider trading means for investors, hedge funds and the market.* (NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/magazine/in-the-insider-trading-war-market-beaters-beware.html?_r=2&ref=business&pagewanted=all))
Sunspots, animal spirits and extrinsic volatility.* (The Psy-Fi Blog (http://www.psyfitec.com/2011/09/crash-2012-sunspots-are-coming.html))
Scientists turning into quants is not a new phemenon.* (Magic Maths Money (http://magic-maths-money.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-was-first-quant.html) via @moneyscience (https://twitter.com/#%21/moneyscience/statuses/116501946445209600))
Roger Ebert on the future of Netflix ($NFLX (http://stocktwits.com/symbol/NFLX)).* (Businessweek (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/netflix-hastings-get-it-right-09222011.html))
Economics
What does the government use econometric models of the economy that nobody believes work?* (American (http://american.com/archive/2011/september/the-soothsayers-of-macroeconometrics))
Why monetary policy is ineffective in a post-credit economy.* (Macroeconomic Resilience (http://www.macroresilience.com/2011/09/22/operation-twist-and-the-limits-of-monetary-policy-in-a-credit-economy/))
The increasing payoff to beauty.* (The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8765360/Does-being-ugly-make-you-poor.html))
Why we need more population density, not less.* (Daily Ticker (http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/expensive-urban-real-estate-drives-away-people-high-150312121.html))
Psychology
Why we spend more when we are relaxed.* (The Frontal Cortex (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/why-being-relaxed-makes-us-spend-too-much-money/all/1))
No one is immune from the dangers of confirmation bias.* (The Psy-Fi Blog (http://www.psyfitec.com/2011/09/honti-4-disconfirm-disconfirm.html))
On the virtues of unconscious thought in making difficult decisions.* (The Frontal Cortex (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/how-should-we-make-hard-decisions/))
Hayes Davenport, “How is it possible, then, that paid experts pick at about the same level of accuracy as any armchair prognosticator?”* (Freakonomics (http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/09/22/picking-the-nfl-playoffs-how-the-experts-fumble-the-snap/))
Society
We now live in the most peaceable time in human history.* Why?* (WSJ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576583203589408180.html))
What does war mean when it is fought by robots?* (New York Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/sep/29/predators-and-robots-war/))
Reuters, Bloomberg and the future of journalism.* (The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/print/2011/09/reuters-bloomberg-and-the-future-of-journalism/245360/))
RIP, REM.* A collection on links on the breakup of the first indie megaband.* (The Browser (http://thebrowser.com/topics/rem-split))
Inside the world of “map obsessives.”* (Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/2303841/))
Baseball
How the Boston Red Sox have put into action the lessons of Moneyball.* (SI (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1190632/1/index.htm))
The aftermath of Moneyball has been better for Michael Lewis than Billy Beane.* (NYTimes (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/magazine/for-billy-beane-winning-isnt-everything.html))
The story of a real life Crash Davis.* (Grantland (http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6991235/crash-davis-rides-again))
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