10/13/2023 Assorted Links

Assorted links from today’s online reading

1. America may soon be spending more on debt service than defence (Economist)

2. Economic Benefits and Social Costs of Legalizing Recreational Marijuana (SSRN)

3. The Fixed Window Fallacy (Economic Forces)

4. How ‘peptides’ became the latest longevity trend in Silicon Valley (Semafor)

5. Don’t Count Out Emmanuel Macron (Discourse)

6. Claudia Goldin Is the Ideal Academic Researcher (Religion & Liberty Online)

7. A Wider Devotion (New York Review of Books)

8. If It’s Under $5 It’s Free: The Logic of ‘Girl Math’ and ‘Boy Math’ (Wall Street Journal)

9. The Presentation of Sources and Rights Labelling Gets a Big Overhaul (Public Domain Review)

10. In Defense of Electricity Markets (Austin Vernon's Substack)