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 · 5 November 2012 English
Project Blue Sky allows instructors to search, select, and seamlessly integrate Open Educational Resources with Pearson learning materials. Using text, video, simulations, Power Point and more, instructors can create the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 5 November 2012 English
1. Favorite books of John van Reenan. 2. An OK Cupid profilee of a rationalist. 3. Markets in everything. 4. The ongoing commercialization of Mecca. 5. The cardboard wheelchair, and …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 November 2012 English
Call this hyperscience, a claim to scientific status that conflates the PR of science with its rather more messy, complicated and less than ideal everyday realities and that takes the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 November 2012 English
No wonder they don’t have a clear sense of what “austerity” means: Mrs Brooks told the Leveson Inquiry earlier this year that Mr Cameron signed some of his missives to …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 November 2012 English
1. GMO labeling and rent-seeking. 2. On-line education to become an Orthodox rabbi. 3. What do you see when you look out the NYC-D.C. Amtrak window? 4. This guy wants …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 November 2012 English
Gregory Huber and Neil Malhotra have a new research paper Political Sorting in Social Relationships: Evidence from an Online Dating Community (pdf). Here is one useful bit: Relative to the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 November 2012 English
There were no laws against price gouging. But the petrol stations knew that every single customer would hate them if they were the only station to let prices rise such …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 November 2012 English
Four Ukrainian students have created gloves that allow speech- and hearing-impaired people to communicate with those who don’t use or understand sign language. The gloves are equipped with sensors that …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 November 2012 English
“Cyclically-adjusted deficit” is not a macroeconomic concept It shouldn’t be, anyway. Tyler Cowen says: “These cyclically adjusted measures are useful information and should not be discarded, but I don’t wish …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 3 November 2012 English
1. How fast are driverless cars on the race track? 2. The Vatican newspaper runs five articles about the new James Bond film. 3. Renders the Taco-Copter totally obsolete. 4. …