Tyler Cowen

No one likes overcrowding, but cities should be careful not to make things too difficult for visitors. Tyler Cowen

Cool! I foresee a future of music being played entirely too loudly on sunglasses in the subway, and women complaining about guys wearing sunglasses to the pool and beach.

U.S. vs. Taiwanese work culture Albert Wensemius and the rise of Singapore Unusual questions answered by Megan McArdle

Michael Stack writes me: “Hi Tyler – you wrote about preferring current airport procedures to pre-9/11 procedures. Do you plan to elaborate on this?

Here is a new paper by Sara Abrahamsson. Perhaps there is Norwegian exceptionalism at work, but the results reflect my expectations reasonably closely.

From the excellent Doug Irwin Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth?

As for Canada, “ Justice Minister defends house arrest power for people feared to commit a hate crime in future. “

Nemat Shafik – @Columbia Prez only has 1 well-cited publication in her life, in Oxford Econ Papers 1994.

Hassan Sayed , a fifth year PhD candidate in economics, it seems was banned from Princeton . Ostensibly for partaking in illegal demonstrations.

Apologies! I took down my post based on this tweet , which upon further reflection struck me as premature. Does anyone have actual word from the would-be co-author as to what happened?