<?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;">It&#8217;s from late last year, but <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/why-we-fightand-can-we-stop/309525/" target="_blank">this piece on the biological origins of morality</a> is worth reading.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;">A new journal, Economic Anthropology, with the <a href="http://blog.aaanet.org/2014/04/08/debut-issue-of-economic-anthropology-greed-and-excess-2/" target="_blank">debut issue on greed and excess</a> (and sorry, gated for those without academic access).</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;">Diane Coyle points to some <a href="http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2014/04/thinking-about-capital/" target="_blank">older work on wealth and inheritance</a>. She also pointed me to this <a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/04/search-until-you-find-a-passion-and-go-all-out-to-excel-in-its-expression/" target="_blank">good interview with E.O Wilson</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/scientific-method-statistical-errors-1.14700" target="_blank">Another good bash of p-values</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/talk-is-cheap-do-smokers-really-want-to-quit" target="_blank">Who is buying the cigarettes</a>? HT: <a href="http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/04/smoking_social.html" target="_blank">Bryan Caplan</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26634477" target="_blank">Baby names</a>. HT: <a href="http://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/nominalism.html" target="_blank">Eric Crampton</a></li>
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<p>And Kelly Slater&#8217;s winning &#8220;Wave of the Winter&#8221;:</p>
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