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 · 27 May 2024 English
When my parents got married, they decided that there were certain things that were difficult to say and should therefore be replaced by numbers. Only one survived in actual usage. …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 May 2024 English
The author is Bjorn Lomborg, and the subtitle is The 12 most efficient solutions for the world’s poorest and our global SDG promises. I missed this book when it first …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 May 2024 English
So here you go: a theory of how totalitarianism might naturally triumph. The basic idea is that when information is costly, liberal democracy wins because it gathers more and better …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 May 2024 English
This paper reexamines the role of social policy in the doubling of divorce rates. We demonstrate that the short-run rise in divorce rates formerly attributed to unilateral divorce solely depends …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 May 2024 English
…we examine how housing provision has evolved for the largest four metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in California and Texas. Despite differences in their topographies and regulatory environments, we find several …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 May 2024 English
At a time when the returns to college and graduate school are at historic highs, why do so many students struggle with their student loans? The increase in aggregate student …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 May 2024 English
An old story but new to me. Lucas and Spielberg swapped 2.5% net points on Star Wars and Close Encounters. Pretty smart bet for both of them. Spielberg tells the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 26 May 2024 English
1. Actual Chinese citations in science are not as high as they might look. 2. Some sickle cell patients were sterilized quite recently. 3. Markets in everything. 4. This home …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 May 2024 English
An early-aughts blog is probably not where you’d expect to find the next Mother Teresa, but that is where Carlo Acutis — soon to become the first millennial saint in …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 May 2024 English
I had not realized how negative were the effects of the 1887 Dawes Act, which broke up many Native American reservations. Before 1912: There was a nontrivial number of relatively …