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 · 11 May 2024 English
1985 — World oil production will fall below world needs 1990 — North America will no longer be a reliable source for food export 1995 — The nations of the …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 9 May 2024 English
Maybe by less than people had thought, here is a new ReStat paper by Gillian Brunet: I use newly-digitized contract data on U.S. war production spending over 1940-1945 to analyze …
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
Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with her. She runs a geopolitics firm, hails from Bulgaria, is in my view broadly classical liberal, focuses on conflict in Eastern Europe …
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
An auction house has withdrawn 18 ancient Egyptian human skulls from sale after an MP said selling them would perpetuate the atrocities of colonialism. Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the chair of the …
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 · 27 April 2024 English
The authro is Kathleen Duval, and the subtitle is A Millennium in North America. This is an excellent book. Here is one excerpt, strung together by me from three separate …