Around the Blogs, Vol. 68

1. Why are women ambiguous about sex? Why are men ambiguous about marriage? (Robin Hanson)

2. Does it take a theory to beat a theory? Lawrence Solum, Paul Gowder.

3. A prediction about the near future of Howard Schultz and Starbucks (Troy Camplin). Let's check back in two years' time, shall we?

4. Houses, clocks and trains (Eric S. Raymond).

5. External validity (teageegeepea).

6. "It's the meta-decisions of what to look at, what to control for, that fall outside any formal statistics that determine most interesting conclusions" (Eric Falkenstein). Yes and no.

7. How to lead a meaningful life (Jeremy Dean).

8. What if households were treated like businesses? (Coyote)

9. Paul Samuelson and the invention of the index fund (Alex Tabarrok).

10. What many people don't understand about tax brackets but should (Dean Baker).