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• European Carbon Markets Have Pretty Much Failed - Bryan Walsh, Time
• An 'Eat Local' Mandate Is a Terrible Idea - Henry Miller, Defining Ideas
• Beware Junk Economics Justifying Big Science - Bill Frezza, Huff. Post
• Moore's Law Is Not Just for Computers - Philip Ball, Nature News
• Social Science Studies Too Many WEIRD People - Ethan Watters, Pac. Std.
• Soon, Robots Will Do Your Job. And That's Good - Ken Fisher, Ars Tech.
• Does Low Fertility Spell Economic Collapse? - Ruy Teixeira, New Republic
• 11 Economics Lessons for Black Friday - Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
• Millionaires Don't Flee States That Raise Taxes - Stanford University
• Vote as Often as You Like... for a Price - Steven Levitt, Freakonomics
• Textbook Wars: What We're (Not) Teaching Our Kids - The Economist
• Genoeconomics: The Latest Controversial Field - Jon Entine, Science 2.0
• U.S. Falls to 18th in Economic Freedom Report - Florida State University
• Exceptional Upward Mobility in U.S. Is a Myth - University of Michigan
• The Grand Challenges of Economics, Social Sciences - MIT Tech. Review
• Crime Doesn't Pay: Bank Robbery Economics - Matt Soniak, Mental Floss
• Some Idiots Call Themselves Economists - Justin Wolfers, Freakonomics
• Smartest Ways to Spend $75 Billion - Bjorn Lomborg, Project Syndicate
• Economists Count the Ways to Save the World - ABC Science
• Keep Nature Exactly as It Is... Forever and Ever - John Stossel, Reason
• Paying Taxes Makes You Feel Good - Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune
• Buying Coal May Be Best Way to Fight Climate Change - Science Codex
• New Research Supports 'Limits to Growth' - Mark Strauss, Smithsonian
• Can Newt Gingrich Really Lower Gas Prices? - Ronald Bailey, Reason
• The Brain Science Behind Economics - Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
• The High Price of Losing Manufacturing Jobs - Science Codex
• Chemistry of Pennies Influenced by Economics - Enrico Uva, Science 2.0
• Happiness: Ultimate Economic Indicator - Richard Heinberg, Fast Co.
• Wealth Is in the Eye of the Beholder - Joseph Stromberg, Smithsonian
• The Strange Economics of the Inca Empire - Annalee Newitz, io9
• United States Ranks 20th in Holiday Spending - Nat'l Science Foundation
• Sexonomics and the Science of Beauty - Rachel Shteir, Chronicle Higher Ed.
• What Are Africa's 'Killer Apps'? - Dominic Basulto, Big Think
• Why Is Worthless Art Ridiculously Expensive? - Blake Gopnik, Newsweek
• Science, Economics, & Non-Hippie Solutions - Enrico Uva, Science 2.0
• The Most Important Social Scientist - Evan Goldstein, The Chronicle Review
• Cash for Clunkers Was Environmental Flop - Emily Badger, Miller-McCune
• Are Teachers Overpaid or Underpaid? - Jordan Weissmann, The Atlantic
• 'Endowment Effect' Explains 'Occupy Wall St'? - Michael Taft, Science 2.0
• Economic Cause-and-Effect Wins Nobel - Casselman & Lahart, WSJ
• Shopping: When & Why Do We Pay More? - Gizem Saka, Psychology Today
• Traders Take More Risks than Psychopaths - Alex Eichler, Huffington Post
• Do the Rich Really Create All the Jobs? - Emily Badger, Miller-McCune
• Practical Game Theory: Predicting Human Behavior - The Economist
• Sorry Malthus, Trade Decreases Birth Rates - Ronald Bailey, Reason
• Economics Tells Us Everything We Know Is Wrong - John Stossel, Reason
• Chinese Better Money Savers Than Americans - Nathan Hurst, Futurity