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 · 25 June 2024 English
We study the macroeconomic implications of narratives, defined as beliefs about the economy that spread contagiously. In an otherwise standard business-cycle model, narratives generate persistent and belief-driven fluctuations. Sufficiently contagious …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 June 2024 English
1. Observations on visiting China after ten years away. 2. “The rise of software accounts for two-thirds of the labor share decline in Korea between 1990 and 2018.” 3. Zvi …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 June 2024 English
TC: “Is the Stiglitz-Shapiro 1984 efficiency wage model actually a model of sticky wages, or not? Is either the real or nominal wage sticky in that model?” Claude: The Stiglitz-Shapiro …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 June 2024 English
That is the new book by Nick Lloyd, it will be making my best non-fiction of the year list. Reviews are very strong, and you can either pre-order and wait, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 June 2024 English
Remember my warnings about the FDAs takeover of lab developed tests? …Lab developed tests have never been FDA regulated except briefly during the pandemic emergency when such regulation led to …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 June 2024 English
In 2021, researchers were asked how smart AI would be in 2022. They predicted 12% pass-rate on the MATH dataset; AI outperformed significantly, scoring 50%. Now it’s at 90%. Here …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 June 2024 English
1. “But SpaghettiOs stood alone as the most convenient of convenience foods.” 2. Meta-science reforms at NIH? Here is the Substack link. 3. “…we find that those who are political …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 June 2024 English
Back then, Europeans embodied environmental advocacy, self-actualization, self-expression and other values described by the University of Michigan political scientist Ronald Inglehart as “post-materialist.” Europeans actually used that term. They were …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 June 2024 English
But what generally goes unmentioned is a more important distinction: that single-table conversations rarely happen in Britain. I first realised this when I started attending friends’ dinners in London a …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 June 2024 English
1. LLMs have sharply diminishing returns in model persuasiveness. 2. Review of the new Beach Boys documentary. 3. Are men more influential than women? 4. Olivier Blanchard on the economic …