Marginal REVOLUTION

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 · 20 May 2024 English

Innovation Matters a podcast of the United Nations Economic Cooperation and Integration Group interviews me on matters related to innovation. If productivity growth had continued on the WWII-1973 track we …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 May 2024 English

NYTimes: Glenn C. Loury’s new book, “Late Admissions,” is unlike any economist’s memoir I have ever read. Most don’t mention picking up streetwalkers. Or smoking crack in a faculty office …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 May 2024 English

The subtitle of this new and excellent book is How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Art of War. It is written not by journalists but two insiders …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 May 2024 English

Perhaps not as much as you might think: We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of inflation and unemployment dynamics. Our main result is that wage cyclicality from incentives …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 20 May 2024 English

1. George Miller talks movies, silent movies, Mad Max, and Furiosa (New Yorker). 2. In this Greg Clark study, fertility seems not very heritable. 3. Mennonites smuggle illegal drugs from …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 May 2024 English

By Nick Whitaker and J. Zachary Mazlish, this is the best piece on this question so far. Excerpt, noting I will not double indent: “Rather than regulation, our explanation for …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 May 2024 English

1. The most notable person from each geographic area? 2. French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp. 3. Skepticism about the new and higher estimates of the costs of climate …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 May 2024 English

I was happy with how this turned out, here is one excerpt: I think we’re overestimating the risks to American democracy. The intellectual class is way too pessimistic. They’re not …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 May 2024 English

“Why are buildings today drab and simple, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented?,” that’s the question asked by Samuel Hughes in the latest Works in Progress. …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 May 2024 English

1. The OpenAI library (NYT). 2. Switzerland fact of the day. Trains. 3. Are women psychologists more censorious than male psychologists? 4. New meta-study on social media and mental health, …