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Author of Adapt; Undercover Economist at the FT; presenter of More or Less, Radio 4. (Email v/ website is best for important messages.) Views my own, of course.

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  1. 1 hour ago

    Very good piece by on deworming, and also handy response in the comments:

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    Do we need incentives to stimulate innovation? on the spread of free ideas

    10:59 PM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details
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  3. 18 hours ago

    Do innovators profit from their ideas?

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  4. 18 hours ago

    "Being Tom Friedman means never having to say you're sorry"

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  5. 18 hours ago

    Are teenagers having less sex?

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  6. 18 hours ago

    Raising the minimum wage

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  7. 19 hours ago

    How politicians learned the power of the gentle nudge

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  8. 19 hours ago

    GREAT piece by on "Worms". Read it. (My own take in a week because, um, dead trees.)

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  9. 19 hours ago

    Forward markets usually overpredict short-term interest rates. Also, BEST GRAPH EVER

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  10. 20 hours ago

    "The BBC has done wrong, and must be punished, as soon as some appropriate crimes can be agreed upon"

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  11. 20 hours ago

    "The world’s most charismatic mathematician"

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  12. Jul 22

    xkcd: Can you name the Spice Girls?

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  13. Jul 22

    The behavioural economics of voluntary disclosure

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  14. Jul 22

    Of gold, glass and ideas:

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  15. Jul 22

    Savings lotteries (eg premium bonds) boost saving. Do they also reduce casino gambling?

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  16. Jul 22

    Are more students from poorer backgrounds really going to university? (Hint: don't forget the part timers.)

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  17. Jul 22

    Why "All Lives Matter" instead of "Black Lives Matter" is such a stupid thing to say

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  18. Jul 22

    What makes the Very Serious People so very serious?

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  19. Jul 21

    The alchemist fallacy - not that it's impossible to turn lead into gold, but that it's lucrative to do so:

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  20. Jul 21

    'Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It'

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