Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Over at Equitable Growth: Must-Reads:

• Patrick Wallis et al.: Puncturing the Malthus Delusion: Structural change in the British economy before the industrial revolution, 1500-1800: Accounts of structural change in the pre-modern British economy vary substantially...
• Matt Levine: Hedge Fund Results: Since the end of 2011, hedge funds as a whole have (1) produced negative alpha and (2) added almost $900 billion of assets...
• Richard Mayhew: A Thousand and One Posts: Wow, that last post was my 1,000th post here at Balloon Juice. I was not expecting that when I first got started here...
• James Hamilton: Too Systemic to Fail: Bryan Kelly at the University of Chicago, Hanno Lustig at Stanford and Stijn van Nieuwerburgh....
• Bradley A. Hansen: Ironic Origins of Libertarianism: "Some liberty-loving soul had donated a copy of John Hospers’s Libertarianism: A Political Philosophy for Tomorrow (1971) to my local public library... 
• Megan McArdle: Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right: You’ll die without food long before you’ll die without health care, and yet few people say we need to “take the profit motive out of farming”...