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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 · 10 December 2012 English
The first sentence of the abstract of this paper reads “Yes, it did.” Please don’t take this as support for whackier theories of the cause of the crisis, but as …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 December 2012 English
1. Iris-scanning in the fight against Indian poverty. 2. Amazing Kreskin offers to fix the fiscal cliff. 3. An Edge talk with Philip Tetlock, and pre-registration for the forecasting website. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 December 2012 English
The food is quite good, as is the gelato. Don’t forget the Libyan, Ethiopian, and Yemeni offerings. Poverty is more evident than I had expected, and one wonders whether extreme …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 December 2012 English
In a new paper, my colleague Carlos Ramirez has the scoop: Abstract: This paper compares corruption in China over the past 15 years with corruption in the U.S. between 1870 …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 December 2012 English
Communist East Germany not only put its political prisoners to work making Ikea furniture, it also sold the bodies of its sick citizens to Western pharmaceutical firms for testing their …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 December 2012 English
Libya is an artificial country, so they don’t call it Libyan food, even though the restaurant is run by “Libyan” Jews. Odelia, Ben Yehuda 89, Tel Aviv. The “Hrime” is …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 December 2012 English
1. The economics of crossword puzzles. 2. More Krugman on Asimov, and Robin Hanson gets one part of his dream come true on combinatorial prediction markets. 3. Good Josh Hendrickson …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 December 2012 English
Here is the job market paper from Jisoo Hwang, on the market this year from Harvard University. The title is “Housewife, “Gold Miss,” and Equal: The Evolution of Educated Women’s …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 December 2012 English
African grey parrot, Pepper, perched atop his special robot, the “Bird Buggy”, designed by his human companion, Andrew Gray. Proving that robots aren’t just for people any longer, African grey …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 December 2012 English
The author is Ian Morris and the subtitle is How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations. I don’t like the subtitle of this book, which I feel should include …