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 · 21 July 2012 English
1. How to stay dry in the rain. 2. Senior IMF economist complains, resigns, complains. 3. Will Peter Thiel play chess for a $1 million start-up investment? 4. Virginia Postrel …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 21 July 2012 English
A new piece by Ron Unz, in The American Conservative, is subtitled “What the Facts Tell Us About a Taboo Subject.” Excerpt: Consider, for example, the results from Germany obtained …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 July 2012 English
…as the conversation deepened and tea flowed, he spoke of prices. Mr. Hamed leads a battalion near Aleppo. The demand for weapons on his turf is so high, and supplies …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 July 2012 English
What do families actually pay for college? On average, the answer was $20,902 in 2011-2012, which is down from $24,097 in 2009-2010. That is from Timothy Taylor. That is not …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 July 2012 English
The author is David Wessel, of The Wall Street Journal, and the subtitle is Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget. You can pre-order it here, due out July …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 July 2012 English
1. Profile of Austan Goolsbee, and profile of David Frum. 2. Estonia vs. Krugman. 3. Collateral crunch in 18th century Amsterdam, and an appreciation of Gulliver’s Travels, via The Browser. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 July 2012 English
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED on the way to the London Olympics: Athletes stopped breaking world records. Remember the run-up to Beijing in 2008, when the sports world was abuzz over …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 July 2012 English
In fact, the actual trends in temperatures had nothing to do with how people perceived them. If you graphed the predictive power of people’s perceptions against the actual temperatures, the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 July 2012 English
Here is one good point of many: Driverless cars don’t need the same wide lanes, which would allow highway authorities to reconfigure roads to allow travel speeds to be raised …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 July 2012 English
Peter Thiel, taking the pessimistic view, and Eric Schmidt of Google, taking the optimistic view, both made good points in their debate over technology but Thiel had the knockout punch: …