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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 · 7 June 2024 English

The post Derek Gripper, Cape Town guitarist appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 June 2024 English

Planetary scientists Robert Stern from the University of Texas at Dallas and Taras Gerya from ETH-Zurich, the two co-authors on the study, suggest that the presence of both continents and …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 June 2024 English

We find that procyclical stocks, whose returns comove with business cycles, earn higher average returns than countercyclical stocks. We use almost a three-quarter century of real GDP growth expectations from …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 June 2024 English

Here is notice from Cato. The post RIP, David Boaz appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 June 2024 English

The average number of days in a year which can be called ‘hottest day of the year so far’ is 20.0 If we want to restrict the number of ‘noteworthy …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 7 June 2024 English

A FDA panel voted against approving MDMA (ecstasy) for post-traumatic stress disorder. Putting aside the specifics of the case, I was vexed by this statement on innovation from one of …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 June 2024 English

1. Good thread on AI and national security. 2. NYT on South African jazz. Here is one cut. 3. Scott Sumner on modernism. 4. Finland will offer bird flu vaccinations …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 June 2024 English

A nice catch by Max at Maximum Progress: [A common critique] is that the NIH funds too many “small crappy trials.” That quote is from a FDA higher up, but …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 June 2024 English

We build a model of the law of small numbers (LSN)—the incorrect belief that even small samples represent the properties of the underlying population—to study its implications for trading behavior …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 June 2024 English

I won’t double indent, this is all Mark: “The Prime Minister of the Bahamas recently gave a speech on revitalizing Grand Bahama. He called out the current asset owners of …