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 · 12 June 2024 English

Animals have exquisite control of their bodies, allowing them to perform a diverse range of behaviors. How such control is implemented by the brain, however, remains unclear. Advancing our understanding …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 June 2024 English

1. Why are arena tours selling so poorly? 2. Daniel Frank’s favorite Scott Sumner posts. 3. NYT on puffins in Iceland. 4. Molly Cantillon, NOX, and their new AI assistant. …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 June 2024 English

1. In a new study, male sperm counts are not dropping. It seems this has been a myth all along. 2. Brian Potter on AI data centers. 3. Do elephants …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 June 2024 English

Jerry Z. Muller, author of the classic The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought, is my favorite intellectual historian. Evidently I am not alone as the Journal of …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 June 2024 English

With formalization projects, what we’ve noticed is that you can collaborate with people who don’t understand the entire mathematics of the entire project, but they understand one tiny little piece. …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 June 2024 English

First, it is one of the most beautiful cities and surrounding environs. I would put it on a par with Vancouver and Hong Kong and Wellington, New Zealand. Perhaps it …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 June 2024 English

I do not know. Am I wrong to think that in optimal contracts theory there should be payments going in both directions, as there is a dual agency relationship? Of …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 June 2024 English

Almost three years earlier, a sombre Paul Kruger had warned that Britain would find conquering the Boer states no easy matter. In the sense that they were certainly not gained …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 June 2024 English

1. The economics department at Genova has an electric diesel submarine. 2. “In other words, many weird cosmic topologies are still entirely consistent with the observed data.” 3. A scenario …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 June 2024 English

Don’t laugh, but basically you want to eat in the restaurants with the beautiful women. And with the views of the waterfront. You may recall those are usually the opposite …