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Marginal Revolution is the blog of Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, both of whom teach at George Mason University. MR began in August of 2003 and there have been new posts daily since that time. In numerous reviews and ratings over the years Marginal Revolution has consistently been ranked as the best or one of the best economic blogs on the web, but it is more (and less) than that, also representing the quirks of its authors.
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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 13 May 2024 English
The post Jerry Seinfeld Duke commencement speech appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 May 2024 English
Just to confirm:– Climate change is unprecedented risk– Mass adoption of EVs is vital– Adoption has slowed bc lack of low-priced options– US companies unable/unwilling to make low-priced EVs– China …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 May 2024 English
A top Wall Street regulator has proposed outlawing election betting in the U.S. derivatives markets, with officials warning that the activity poses a threat to the sanctity of American elections. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 May 2024 English
1. Is it people on the Left who have a better sense for the visual arts? 2. Boat painting regulatory arbitrage? 3. The Dublin portal. 4. Gideon Lewis-Kraus samples flying …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 May 2024 English
The subtitle is Hw Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy. I am happy to have blurbed this book, here is part of the Amazon description: Was …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 May 2024 English
1985 — World oil production will fall below world needs 1990 — North America will no longer be a reliable source for food export 1995 — The nations of the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 May 2024 English
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, and here is the basic setting: Apple unveiled a record stock buyback plan last week even as it increased its dividend …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 May 2024 English
1. A guy visits Chinese electric cars. 2. What Benjamin Manning is up to with LLMs and economics. 3. Roland Fryer on signaling and the protests (WSJ). 4. Henry Oliver’s …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 May 2024 English
An excellent book, here is the UK Amazon link, I am not sure of the U.S. plans. The subtitle is What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 May 2024 English
My dad always used to say that the way you build wealth is by building equity in your home. My housing plan would help Americans achieve homeownership by giving households …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 May 2024 English
1. The teens who make friends with AI chatbots. 2. How Tolkien nixed a Beatles LOTR film. 3. Adam Thierer on state-level regulation of AI. 4. Samo Burja on Mexican …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 May 2024 English
The author is Kirk Goldsberry, and the subtitle is Mapping the Remarkable Transformation of the NBA. I enjoyed this book very much, and the visual are excellent. The prose reads …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 May 2024 English
German far-left vandals break through police lines and run for Tesla’s Gigafactory, hoping to disrupt production. These people clearly hate both fossil fuel cars and electric cars. They are modern-day …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 May 2024 English
Solar is powering a large share of California’s energy needs during the day and batteries are now powering a significant share at night. NYTimes: Since 2020, California has installed more …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 May 2024 English
You heard from Alex on that topic recently, here is my contribution in the form of a Bloomberg column: According to new research from economists at the University of Oregon …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 May 2024 English
The US has some of the lowest electricity prices in the world. Shown below are industrial retail electricity prices in EU27, USA, UK, China and Japan. Electricity is critical for …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 May 2024 English
There were significant differences in SI between psychologists and AI’s ChatGPT-4 and Bing. ChatGPT-4 exceeded 100% of all the psychologists, and Bing outperformed 50% of PhD holders and 90% of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 May 2024 English
Israel and Iran bombed each other like three weeks ago and now oil prices are low enough that the SPR [Strategic Petroleum Reserve] is looking at buying That is from …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 May 2024 English
Maybe by less than people had thought, here is a new ReStat paper by Gillian Brunet: I use newly-digitized contract data on U.S. war production spending over 1940-1945 to analyze …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 May 2024 English
1. Berkeley festival of smart internet writers, you can apply to go. 2. Lyman Stone on urban density and fertility. 3. Joseph Heath articles, some about Canada. 4. Using social …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 May 2024 English
We document a convex relationship between earnings rank and cognitive ability for men in Finland and Norway using administrative data on over 350,000 men in each country: the top earnings …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 May 2024 English
The real, inflation-adjusted, price of gold is high. Historically, a high real gold price has been associated with low inflation-adjusted gold returns over the subsequent 10 years. Further, historically the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 May 2024 English
Three big volumes, about 1800 pp., these books reprint the true classics behind the origins of economic thought. These are the best works of economics published before Adam Smith, and …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 May 2024 English
Some of the recoveries stemmed from successful investments that Mr. Bankman-Fried made during his FTX tenure. In 2021, the company had put $500 million into the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 May 2024 English
1. “Authors who were perceived as female responded at similar rates regardless of the pronouns in the requester’s email. Authors who were perceived as male were less likely to respond …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 May 2024 English
Low-skill immigrants have low wages and thus don’t pay much in taxes but they do use some government services, especially education for their children. What’s the net fiscal impact? The …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 May 2024 English
This David Pozen piece is excellent, non-partisan, and uses plenty of economic reasoning. Here is just one excerpt from a much broader treatment: For all the talk of how the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 May 2024 English
1. “Taken together, our findings confirm that restricting future fossil fuel use will accelerate current-day consumption.” 2. New survey of genonomics, NBER. 3. Dmitri Alperovitch on Taiwan and Ukraine. 4. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 May 2024 English
You will find it here, recommended. The post My choral music playlist for Rick Rubin appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 May 2024 English
The researchers point to unexpected results in trials of school-based mental health interventions in the United Kingdom and Australia: Students who underwent training in the basics of mindfulness, cognitive behavioral …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 May 2024 English
Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with her. She runs a geopolitics firm, hails from Bulgaria, is in my view broadly classical liberal, focuses on conflict in Eastern Europe …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 May 2024 English
1. Why is reading declining for middle schoolers? 2. mRNA vaccines against cancer. 3. Fifty late bloomers (it is UK launch week for Henry Oliver’s excellent Second Act). 4. Eli …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 May 2024 English
Sam Altman asks if our personalized AI companions of the future could be subpoenaed to testify against us in court pic.twitter.com/CTCXvxLR6S — Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) May 6, 2024 The post Questions …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 May 2024 English
That is the new and very useful book by Carola Binder, mostly a very good economic history. Here is one excerpt: The [Nixon price controls] were seen as necessary to …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 May 2024 English
There is now an NBER working paper on this topic: This paper presents the results from a hypothetical set of questions related to mask-wearing behavior and opinions that were asked …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 May 2024 English
An excellent interview of economist Cliff Winston with Joe Lonsdale covering occupational licensing, barriers to entry in the US markets, the failure to test antitrust actions and more. The post …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 May 2024 English
US ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, has emphasized the remarkable success of Indian immigrants in the United States, noting that over 10% of Fortune 500 companmy CEOs as Indian immigrants …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 May 2024 English
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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 May 2024 English
1. Claims about social resilience (NYT). 2. “Macau is trending toward 0.49 births per woman in 2024.” Bryan Caplan is tagged in the tweet. 3. Those new service sector jobs …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 May 2024 English
Negotiations to finally bring an end to Sri Lanka’s long-running $13bn debt default could result in an innovative new type of bond that would link payouts to economic growth and …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 May 2024 English
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is the intro: Out of curiosity, I recently cracked open The American Economy in Transition, published in 1980, edited by …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 May 2024 English
1. Incels vs insings, “Half of Malmö Consists of Guys Who Dumped Me.” 2. Will agentic work flows lead to more and better training data? 3. Critique of feminism, not …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 May 2024 English
An auction house has withdrawn 18 ancient Egyptian human skulls from sale after an MP said selling them would perpetuate the atrocities of colonialism. Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the chair of the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 May 2024 English
Wu Bingjian, better known in the west as ‘Houqua’, or sometimes ‘Howqua’, was the most successful Chinese merchant of his day. As leader of the Cohong (gonghang), the guild of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 May 2024 English
From Devon Zuegel: “Edge Esmeralda is a month-long “popup village” for people who believe the future can be better and are actively working to make it happen. Over 1,000 people …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 May 2024 English
1. Jake Seliger update. 2. Yuen Yuen Ang on adaptive political economy. 3. A resurgence of folk deities in Taiwan? (NYT) 4. Benjamin Yeoh podcast with Henry Oliver on late …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 May 2024 English
Data center developers in Northern Virginia are asking utility Dominion Energy Inc. for as much power as several nuclear reactors can generate, in the latest sign of how artificial intelligence …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 May 2024 English
Drunken-driving deaths in the U.S. have risen to levels not seen in nearly two decades, federal data show, a major setback to long-running road-safety efforts. At the same time, arrests …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 May 2024 English
Many countries are facing and resisting strong migratory pressure, fueling irregular migration. In response to mounting deaths in the Central Mediterranean, European nations intensified rescue operations in 2013. We develop …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 May 2024 English
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Coleman and Tyler explore the implications of colorblindness, including whether jazz would’ve been created in a …