Marginal REVOLUTION

Marginal REVOLUTION

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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 · 14 July 2024 English

1. Interview with Robert Putnam (NYT). 2. Julia La Roche podcasts with me. “Can AI fix our debt problem?” 3. Why is synthetic blood so expensive? 4. Kevin Drum is …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 July 2024 English

The law’s price controls will also deter companies from developing new medicines. A study I co-authored estimated that 135 fewer drugs will come to market through 2039 because of the …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 July 2024 English

And it’s worth asking: Is it true that since 1974, policy debate in the United States has been dominated by a “growth-at-all-costs” brand of “free-market fundamentalism”? I don’t think that …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 July 2024 English

From an MR reader: The most Democratic legislature in the country passed two market-friendly bills this session. 1) HB2404 CD 1 represents the largest income tax cut in the State’s …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 July 2024 English

Here is one excerpt: What few appreciate is that the overregulation of housing has blocked a classic American path: moving to a higher-wage part of the country to secure a …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 July 2024 English

1. Singapore fact of the day uh-oh. 2. Benjamin Schneider on robotaxis. 3. Jon Hartley interview with Edmund Phelps. 4. The $150,000 dog. 5. Greg Mankiw on inflation and the …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 July 2024 English

Reports that a powerful Rio drug lord known for his extremist religious beliefs ordered Catholic churches near his stronghold to close have spooked worshipers and security experts and exposed the …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 July 2024 English

As a holiday meditation, consider that many of the things that fill people with understandable fear for our national future – polarization, extremism, radicalization, mutual incomprehension across cultural and moral …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 July 2024 English

There is no doubt that the past 14 years has seen miserable progress on living standards. Real household disposable income per person has flatlined in the UK since the 2019 …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 July 2024 English

Guyana bursts into the IMF’s 2024 top ten of countries by GDP per capita (PPP). Most are tax havens or oil states (as is Guyana). Singapore, Switzerland, and the USA …