<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Jason Collins blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://jasoncollins.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Jason Collins]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://jasoncollins.blog/author/jasonacollins/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[A week of&nbsp;links]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>Links this week:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><span style="color:#333333;"><a href="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/a-few-words-about-math.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noah Smith on maths in economics</a>. Responses from <a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/the-point-of-economath/?_r=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Krugman</a>, <a href="http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/noah-smith-picks-up-the-theme/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arnold Kling</a>, <a href="http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/08/math-over-used-but-useful.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robin Hanson</a> and <a href="http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/08/economath_fails.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bryan Caplan</a>.<br />
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<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><span style="color:#333333;"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/08/psychology-ten-thousand-hour-rule-complexity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Malcolm Gladwell defends</a> the 10,000 hour rule.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2013/08/low-birth-rates-causes-consequences-and-remedies-becker.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gary Becker</a> and <a href="http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2013/08/does-the-world-need-more-people-posner.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Richard Posner</a> discuss population.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;">And finally, an interview with Martin Daly as part of the &#8220;On the Origin of HBES: An Oral History Project&#8221;, from <a href="http://www.thisviewoflife.com/index.php/magazine/articles/on-the-origin-of-human-behavior-and-evolution-society-martin-daly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Evolution, This View of Life</a>.</li>
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