Saturday assorted links

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1. Liverpool man who inherited £100,000 lets 12 strangers give the money away.

2. Jonathan Eaton, RIP.  And more on his work in trade economics.

3. ACX grants from Astral Codex.  And new African School of Economics coming in Zanzibar.

4. The Monk and the Gun is a fun Bhutanese movie about the foundations of democracy (and markets).

5. Using AI to campaign and deliver your victory speech, while in jail.

6. Another 2014 post on Putin: “Putin is signaling to the Russian economy that it needs to get used to some fairly serious conditions of siege, and food is of course the most important of all commodities. Why initiate such a move now if you are expecting decades of peace and harmony?”

7. John Bruton, RIP (NYT, he negotiated peace with Northern Ireland and also set the corporate income tax rate low in Ireland and designed the referendum that overturned the country’s ban on divorce).

8. Ad for temporary co-host for Planet Money on NPR.

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