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Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture - Marginal REVOLUTION
Forthcoming from the QJE, here is a new paper by Andrea Matanga: The Neolithic revolution saw...
What should I ask Alan Taylor? - Marginal REVOLUTION
He is one of the greatest of living American historians, here is from Wikipedia: Alan Shaw...
What I am nostalgic about - Marginal REVOLUTION
With a group of friends I was having a chat about the merits of the current...
Michael Cook on Iran - Marginal REVOLUTION
Our primary concern in this chapter will be Iran, though toward the end we will shift...
*The Carnation Revolution* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The author is Alex Fernandes, and the subtitle is The Day Portugal’s Dictatorship Fell. A very...
History of economic thought paper ideas - Marginal REVOLUTION
These topics seem underexplored to me: Montesquieu Economics in the Talmud Rise of econometrics in the...
Robert Whaples reviews *GOAT* - Marginal REVOLUTION
An excellent piece, here is one excerpt I enjoyed in particular: Cowen reads the John Maynard...
The $20 bill gets picked up, body parts markets in everything - Marginal REVOLUTION
At the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte’s final battle, more than 10,000 men and as...
Cultivating Minds: The Psychological Consequences of Rice versus Wheat Farming - Marginal REVOLUTION
It’s long been argued that the means of production influence social, cultural and psychological processes. Rice...
What should I ask Brian Winter? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him. Here is his bio: Brian Winter is the...
My Conversation with Fareed Zakaria - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. You can tell he knows what an interview is! ...
Strong AI and the O-Ring model - Marginal REVOLUTION
Let’s say the Sumerians were gifted strong AI, simply as an exogenous shock to a historical...
Opening Borders - Marginal REVOLUTION
Open borders hasn’t been getting a lot of good press recently but next week Bulgaria and...
*Star Maker*, by Olaf Stapledon - Marginal REVOLUTION
Nnow though it was generally assumed in intellectual circles that the best was yet to be,...
*Revolusi* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The subtitle is Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World, and the author is David...
My excellent Conversation with Marilynne Robinson - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Marilynne Robinson is one...
Haiti vs. the Dominican Republic - Marginal REVOLUTION
I am setting aside most of the cultural and “macro” issues, and just considering policy, in...
Some triumphs of 19th century liberalism - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is an outline of part of my lecture. I presented “free trade” (NB: it wasn’t...
How good a song is Quarter to Three? - Marginal REVOLUTION
You know, the 1961 #1 hit by Gary U.S. Bonds? I’ve been thinking about this question...
19th century British economic thought (another outline for my class) - Marginal REVOLUTION
1760-1830, typically considered peak of Industrial Revolution Malthus, first decade of the 19th century Ricardo’s Principles,...
Shruti Rajagopalan interviews Doug Irwin - Marginal REVOLUTION
Doug of course is one of the top trade economists. Here is the audio, video, and...
Revisiting the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger - Marginal REVOLUTION
T-Mobile’s takeover of Sprint was controversial among analysts. “If this merger is not anticompetitive,” Eleanor Fox, a...
Early French economics, my lecture notes - Marginal REVOLUTION
Early French moralists, some of them Jansenists: Pierre Nicole, La Rochefoucauld, etc. Invisible hand, idea of...
