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 · 12 May 2024 English
The subtitle is Hw Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy. I am happy to have blurbed this book, here is part of the Amazon description: Was …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 11 May 2024 English
An excellent book, here is the UK Amazon link, I am not sure of the U.S. plans. The subtitle is What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 May 2024 English
The author is Kirk Goldsberry, and the subtitle is Mapping the Remarkable Transformation of the NBA. I enjoyed this book very much, and the visual are excellent. The prose reads …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 May 2024 English
Three big volumes, about 1800 pp., these books reprint the true classics behind the origins of economic thought. These are the best works of economics published before Adam Smith, and …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 6 May 2024 English
That is the new and very useful book by Carola Binder, mostly a very good economic history. Here is one excerpt: The [Nixon price controls] were seen as necessary to …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 May 2024 English
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is the intro: Out of curiosity, I recently cracked open The American Economy in Transition, published in 1980, edited by …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 4 May 2024 English
Wu Bingjian, better known in the west as ‘Houqua’, or sometimes ‘Howqua’, was the most successful Chinese merchant of his day. As leader of the Cohong (gonghang), the guild of …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 May 2024 English
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Coleman and Tyler explore the implications of colorblindness, including whether jazz would’ve been created in a …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 May 2024 English
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him. Here is Wikipedia: Philip Ball (born 1962) is a British science writer. For over twenty years he has been an editor …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 May 2024 English
Benjamin Nathans, To The Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement. The definitive book on its topic, consisting largely of profiles of dissidents. The …