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Nov 27 2007 12:00am EDT

Reading List

- Dani Rodrik doesn't like the assumptions behind this NYT story on NYC manhole covers.

- A how-to for manufacturing demand for a product nobody seems to want.

- An astonishing story of altruism results in an argument for a tighter immigration policy.

- One for the stat-heads: A digestible argument for why R-squared, a statistical measure of how much a change in one variable influences another variable, is not very meaningful.

- The numbers behind Fashion Week.

- The economics of Brazilian waxes.


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