Reading Lounge

1. “I hope for Goldman Sachs’ bankruptcy”: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Skin in the Game

2. Must read! Monetary policy and fiscal discipline: How the ECB planted the seeds of the euro area crisis

3. Discernment of mortality risk associated with childbirth in archaeologically derived forager skeletons

4. Economic Leadership and Growth

Economies governed by former economics students grow faster than economies governed by leaders with other education backgrounds; a result which is most evident for presidents. 

Evidence in Europe missing. Pdf here.

5. From 2005 but still entertaining: Gender differences are a laughing matter, study reveals

"These included the left prefrontal cortex, suggesting a greater emphasis on language and executive processing in women, and the nucleus accumbens, or NAcc, which is part of the mesolimbic reward center."

6. Google Japan Now Has Street View From a Dog's Perspective