Afternoon roundup

The afternoon's worthies:

• Why do so many policy interventions help women, but not men? All kinds of intervention programmes, not gender-targeted, seem to have far larger benefits for women than for men. 
• Bryan Perry's latest compilation is out! It's the topic of this week's column at Newsroom, ungates tomorrow by pulling the /pro from the URL. 
• Europe is heading for a dark winter. 
• If we didn't now have a grocery producer price index, David Clark would wind up pointing to the next increase in grocery CPI as reason to break up the supermarkets. He'll probably do it anyway. But at least we can point to the underlying cost pressures now. 9.2%!
• The Future for Local Government Forum's report is due at the end of October. They've a big job to do. Central government has been strangling local government for decades. 
• Noah Smith on the 2022 Econ Nobel to Bernanke, Diamond and Dybvig. And Tyler Cowen , and Cowen on the Diamond Dybvig model.
  
• An Aztec counterargument to vertical supply curves in unimproved land. 
• Forest and Bird questioning the merits of Lake Onslow, and of 100% renewable electricity targets.