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 · 28 July 2012 English
Phil Galewitz and Matthew Fleming surveyed all 50 states to find out how Medicaid budgets are changing. They found that 13 states had made cuts this year..Seven have Democratic governors; …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 July 2012 English
To reduce the number of cars on the road, lawmakers have designated several main arteries as what they call “Three in One zones.” During the morning and afternoon rush, you …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 July 2012 English
1. The ice cream market in Afghanistan; “”Security is not a concern when selling ice-cream”… 2. English phrases common only to India. 3. How to play in someone else’s band. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 July 2012 English
The findings reveal that 20.7% of the studied articles in behavioral economics propose paternalist policy action and that 95.5% of these do not contain any analysis of the cognitive ability …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 July 2012 English
1. Why is UK employment up and output down? 2. Genetics vs. paleoanthropology? 3. Price inflation and stock returns (pdf), and here, and here, and most recently here; “There is …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 July 2012 English
At the same time, one branch of that thinking has itself evolved into a new project: the notion of creating downloadable chemistry, with the ultimate aim of allowing people to …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 July 2012 English
It’s beginning to look like Keynes was wrong about liquidity traps, at least when he argued that there’s a certain minimum nominal yield that government bond investors demand, and that …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 July 2012 English
Everything by Gary Gorton is worth reading. I am not sure when this book is due out (Amazon claims Nov.2012), but it is not out yet. The link is here. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 July 2012 English
1. Adam Gurri’s thoughts on the great stagnation. 2. Dan Ariely’s column is now a regular feature in the WSJ, here is installment two. You can ask Dan questions at …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 July 2012 English
From a new Mercatus working paper by David Howden, here is the conclusion: When the tale of these two crises is told, the conclusion is typically that one set of …