Marginal REVOLUTION

Marginal REVOLUTION

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons

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.


Flag this collection
Type
Rights
Copyright © Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok; all rights reserved
Author
Tyler Cowen
Alex Tabarrok

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 August 2012 English

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. And this: I guess we all like to be recognized …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 August 2012 English

During the 60s and 70s it would appear that private life insurance was not available to astronauts. Autograph Magazine has a good post about how astronauts of the time used …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 August 2012 English

Neil Armstrong, first moon walker, died yesterday. In total, there have been twelve. Armstrong who was first, Peter Conrad who was 3rd, Alan Shepard who was 5th and James Irwin …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 August 2012 English

…there was a fierce behind-the-scenes battle between them to be first to set foot on the Moon. Early plans were for Aldrin, as module pilot, to step out first, but …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 August 2012 English

The title is *Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False*. Here is a brief summary of his “teleological” argument. My bottom lines on …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 August 2012 English

In this segment Chris Hayes gives a gracious and interesting response to my post Racism by Political Party. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 August 2012 English

1. The economics of Spanish football clubs. 2. William Thurston, On Proof and Progress in Mathematics, and his obituary is here. He seems to have been a special thinker. 3. …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 August 2012 English

An article in The Economist (from which I have nabbed the title of this post) argues that money, particularly coins, had to have “developed not as a private-sector attempt to …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 August 2012 English

Read it and weep, from the excellent Emily Kaiser (follow her), based on a pointer from David Leonhardt.


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 August 2012 English

From Greg Ip: Here’s the real threat. Even if the Bush tax cuts are extended and the sequester delayed, a huge amount of fiscal drag remains in place. They include …