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 · 8 August 2024 English

From Steve Landsburg in the WSJ: Here’s an economics brain teaser: Apples are provided by a competitive industry. Pears are provided by a monopolist. Coincidentally, they sell at the same …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 August 2024 English

In 2000 the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a $1 million prize to anyone who could solve any of the seven Millennium Problems. Namely, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Hodge conjecture, …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 August 2024 English

1. Dynamic inconsistency in great apes. 2. New results against HIV. They seem pretty spectacular. 3. Feasibility of keeping Mars warm with nanoparticles. 4. At the bottom of his post, …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 August 2024 English

I am here only briefly, and earlier I had visited the city perhaps seven or eight times, typically when passing through. But not within the last twenty years. My main …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 August 2024 English

Just an interesting update: Chinese cars are rapidly replacing European & American cars in the city. An improvement in terms of comfort. Luxury cars still only European. Housing prices in …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 August 2024 English

I will not double indent: “Dear Tyler, I am a great fan. I am currently focused on Guinea (Conakry) and wondered what you might have posted about the country over …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 August 2024 English

1. Horpedahl reviews Haidt. 2. Paul Davidson, RIP. 3. A neoliberal case for Walz? (not necessarily endorsing, I do not yet know enough to say, but some contrarianism is called …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 August 2024 English

Noah writes: I would love an update to this @tylercowen post, explaining why the vibes have seemingly shifted back! I don’t think the vibes have shifted back at all, and …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 August 2024 English

Maybe so: Using thousands of essays written by 11-year-olds in 1969, we construct an index measuring girls’ conformity to gender norms then prevalent in Britain. We link this index to …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 August 2024 English

Houston First, the city’s tourism department, revealed that it is paying $90,000 per year for three years — meaning the city will invest a whopping $270,000 to have the Michelin …