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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 · 31 December 2023 English

1. What Kent Hendricks learned this year, always good. 2. NYT calls for the total destruction of all extant major LLMs. Of course this should be a scandal, and considered …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 December 2023 English

Abstract: Previous studies of the effect of ridesharing on traffic fatalities have yielded inconsistent, often contradictory conclusions. In this paper we revisit this question using proprietary data from Uber measuring …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 December 2023 English

Just about the worst calamity that can befall a human is to lose a child, and historically, almost half of children worldwide died before they reached the age of 15. …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 December 2023 English

The Maine official who moved to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot on Thursday visited the White House this year to meet with President …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 December 2023 English

Phind And don’t forget about Perplexity.ai. The options in this space are improving rapidly. The post Phind is quite good appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 December 2023 English

1. Music in outer space? 2. John Stuart Mill’s advice on human flourishing. 3. The patrilocal trap. 4. Helsinki’s KOM Theatre is trialling English language surtitles for audiences who don’t …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 December 2023 English

Major win for the US on high-skilled immigration policy: “USCIS data show that the number of O-1A visas awarded in the first year of the revised guidance jumped by almost …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 December 2023 English

This is making the rounds on Twitter, so I thought I would serve up my somewhat unusual, not quite playing the game by its rules answers: City I hate: Do …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 December 2023 English

If you stare at just the exact right part of the toothpick, and measure the length from the tip, expressed in terms of the appropriate unit and converted into binary, …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 December 2023 English

Together, I estimate these policies have effectively pushed returns down by more than 2 percentage points in most cases as suboptimal asset allocation choices with significant practical implications. Note that …