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 · 20 November 2012 English
Charles Kenny has an excellent piece in Bloomberg BusinessWeek about security: The attention paid to terrorism in the U.S. is considerably out of proportion to the relative threat it presents. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 November 2012 English
I suspect Tim Harford knew I would blog this when he tweeted this piece. It starts with this: We looked through their schemes, and asked Jean-Jacques Dethier [TC: link is …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 November 2012 English
1. Some of this is actually true. 2. Is Catalonia coming to its senses? 3. Joel Slemrod roast (the academic discourse of the future). 4. Things younger than Oscar Niemeyer …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 November 2012 English
It is an excellent column and here is one good bit: Soft Libertarians. Some of the most influential bloggers on the right, like Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok and Megan McArdle, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 November 2012 English
This is from an older piece, but I ran across it while browsing the internet. It is from the Cleveland Fed, by Michael Bryan and Guhan Venkatu, 2001, excerpt: The …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 November 2012 English
Laundry is strung outside the house. The water comes from a well in a yard, overgrown with weeds. Only two police officers and Manuela, a three-legged dog, keep watch outside. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 November 2012 English
This is from Gavyn Davies and Juan Antolin-Diaz: We conclude that fiscal policy is responsible for a little less than half of the UK’s under-performance compared with the US, with …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 November 2012 English
It is by Austan Goolsbee, Steve Levitt, and Chad Syverson. I have only browsed it, but it looks very good. There is information about the book here (note that we …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 November 2012 English
Via Ross Douthat, here is the close of Blackburn’s review of the new Thomas Nagel book: There is charm to reading a philosopher who confesses to finding things bewildering. But …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 November 2012 English
…by my calculation it would take songwriting royalties for roughly 312,000 plays on Pandora to earn us [Galaxie 500] the profit of one– one– LP sale. (On Spotify, one LP …