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 · 18 July 2012 English
I won’t be there until September, but someone I know (who lives in “our world,” most likely you have read him on economics) will be there sooner. Please help us …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 July 2012 English
In the IS/LM framework many…are using, doesn’t this mean that we are getting “growth” by firms investing in projects with a negative NPV now made profitable by an even more …
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: …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 July 2012 English
That is the new book by Keith Lowe, with the subtitle Europe in the Aftermath of World War II. Excerpt: The number of sexual relationships that took place between European …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 July 2012 English
Louis Vuitton is courting China’s wealthy with one-of-a-kind shoes and bags it is branding as unique works of art to reclaim its exclusive cachet in the luxury market. The French …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 19 July 2012 English
1. It is far from obvious that he is wrong. 2. Big data on campus. 3. One look at our deepest structural problem (no recession for college grads, terrible job …
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 …