Monday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen September 13, 2021 at 11:56 am

1. You can now buy a $475 NFT ticket to see Beeple’s $69 million NFT at an IRL party. The ticket also includes one drink.

2. “We find that young players benefited at the expense of older players and that the disruptive effects of the new [tennis] racquets persisted over two to four generations.”

3. In the early stages of pandemics, do they spread more amongst people of higher status?

4. The exclusionary history of the FHA.

5. Excerpts from me on how to read.

6. The Japanese are better at reading Twitter.

7. Tensions between the CDC and Biden administration mount. Which one do you think is coming closer to trying to maximize expected value? It turns out even the FDA thinks the CDC is too slow.