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 · 2 November 2012 English
From an email from Coursera: Several students have contacted me about cases of cheating on the Final Exam. Frankly, why anyone who do this in a course that focuses on …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 November 2012 English
Nate Silver, whose models give Obama a high probability of winning reelection, has offered one of his critics a bet. “Putting your money where your mouth is,” is a time-honored …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 November 2012 English
That is a new paper by Pierre Azoulay, Jeffrey Furman, Joshua Krieger, and Fiona Murray, and here is the abstract: To what extent does “false science” impact the rate and …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 November 2012 English
1. The pulled report on taxes and the economy. 2. There is no great stagnation: texting while skiing. 3. Some economics articles on natural disasters. 4...
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 November 2012 English
From Jordan Weissmann: We’ve nationalized so many of the events over the last few decades that the federal government is involved in virtually every disaster that happens. And that’s not …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 November 2012 English
That is a new paper by Robert E. Martin and R. Carter Hill: We estimate three models of cost per student using data from Carnegie I and II public research …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 November 2012 English
1. Impatient idealism. 2. The new placebo hospitals? 3. Discussion of Proposition 35, from California, on settling the penalties for child trafficking. 4. GMU to launch a South Korean campus. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 November 2012 English
Forgiveness reduces the price of transgression; or, demand curves slope down. As discussed by the WSJ: …research shows forgiveness has a dark side. At first it may help the person …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 November 2012 English
These cyclically adjusted measures are useful information and should not be discarded, but I don’t wish to use them as the sole or main or dominant source of information about …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 November 2012 English
At Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s request, Walgreen Co. has agreed to provide $25 gift cards to parents who pick up their students’ report cards and participate in parent-teacher conferences during report …