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 · 17 October 2012 English
1. Koreans win gold medal in Alphabet Olympics. 2. Russ Roberts and John Taylor on why the recovery is weak. A new video method of teaching. 3. “Hot Dog Stuffed …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 October 2012 English
David Popkin writes to me: I hope all is well. I was having a heated discussion and thought of you and your blog. Do people tip more/less/same via online delivery …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 October 2012 English
I am a big fan of the food writings of Michael Pollan, but his recent opinion piece on GMO labeling could be stronger. His argument for voting “yes” on mandatory …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 October 2012 English
The next set of lessons in MRUniversity’s development economics course is on water economics. Water is one of the most important issues in developing countries for many reasons, including agriculture, …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 October 2012 English
Busan is the best success story I know for the Avent-Yglesias approach to urban density. Imagine taking a city that looks like San Francisco, or more concretely Nagasaki, and letting …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 October 2012 English
1. How come no one announced that Bhagwati occasionally blogs? 2. India’s schools turn to Khan Academy. 3. What would a 15-hour work week really look like? 4. Tom Murphy …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 16 October 2012 English
From a letter to the NYTimes: … in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 October 2012 English
He wrote to me: There’s two things about the labeling debate that really bother me: First, we have to concede that not everything can be labeled. If so, the burdens …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 October 2012 English
From Literary Saloon, you can read the post here. Addendum: Mo Yan has won, one of his best-known novels is Red Sorghum.
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 October 2012 English
To critics, the economists’ paper seems to suggest that a country’s poverty could be the result of its citizens’ genetic make-up, and the paper is attracting charges of genetic determinism, …