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Sending you a Christmas present of four issues of Interessant3 so you can have plenty to read in your down time.

, Bengt Holmström & Nicolas Petit – The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance The authors argue Europe has lost its economic edge by drifting from its original purpose: prosperity through market integration and innovation, not regulatory…

Finnish cultural concept - “sisu” Sisu describes a distinctly Finnish form of determined courage: a quiet, stubborn resolve to push beyond perceived limits in the face of hardship, often invoked in stories of war, harsh winters and long, difficult project…

Our World in Data – Does the News Reflect What We Die From?

Double issue this week.

Double issue this week.

- “Yes In My Bamako Yard” 🌍 Africa’s urban century – ~900m new urbanites by 2050; two-thirds of 2050’s cityscape isn’t built yet, and much of the continent is “urbanising while poor”. 🧱 Regulatory knots – Oversized minimum plots (Dar: 400→300 m²), creaky…

- The Fatima Sun Miracle: Much More Than You Wanted To Know 📅 13 Oct 1917, near solar noon: clouds part, a “painless” sun appears to spin, pulse through colours, and lurch downward; crowd panic ensues for ~10 minutes . 🧾 In a fascinating article, Scott Al…

Housing supply 101 - “When inventories fall, prices rise” 🧭 As previously covered, housing markets have a core rule: lower available homes relative to demand → higher prices; any housing policy that ignores this arithmetic won’t dent the crisis. 🗽 Callout…

Peter Thiel - “Against Edenism” (First Things) 🌳 Thesis: Thiel warns that humanity’s nostalgia for a pre-technological Eden is misplaced.

- “The Algorithm Will See You Now” () 🧠 Context: Radiology is medicine’s most digitised domain - perfectly positioned for AI - but progress toward human replacement has been oddly sluggish. ⚙️ Performance paradox: CheXNet and its successors can outperform…

, “How Britain Became a Property-Owning Democracy” 🏘️ Over the 20th century, Britain deliberately shifted from renting to homeownership, using policies like mortgage reforms, tax breaks, and Thatcher’s Right to Buy programme. 💰 Housing became not just she…

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Garett Jones - Do Immigrants Import Their Economic Destiny?