~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (171)
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Tying the Knot - Marginal REVOLUTION
Dobbs, of course, was the Supreme Court decision saying that the constitution does not provide a...
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"The Simple Macroeconomics of AI" - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the new Daron Acemoglu paper, and he is skeptical about its overall economic effects. ...
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South Africa fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Two economists from the Harvard Growth Lab (Shah and Sturzenegger) estimate that the average transport costs...
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Why a Housing Shortage Exists Despite More Houses Per Person - Marginal REVOLUTION
When I post about the skyrocketing price of housing and the need to build, commentators (include...
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Economic growth sentences to ponder, Argentina fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Sometimes I feel like focusing on policies that only affect growth rates by a few tenths...
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Why is the Biden Administration Against Fee Transparency in Education? - Marginal REVOLUTION
President Biden has made a big deal of simplifying fees: The FTC is proposing a rule that…would...
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The Ludwig von Mises comeback - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the subject of my latest Bloomberg column. Here is one excerpt: The Austrian economist Ludwig...
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The Culture that is Germany - Marginal REVOLUTION
FT: When it launched its fully automated stores four years ago, Germany’s regional supermarket chain Tegut...
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Pay For Performance Increases Performance (Water Runs Downhill) - Marginal REVOLUTION
In my 2011 book, Launching the Innovation Renaissance, I wrote: At times, teacher pay in the...
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History of economic thought paper ideas - Marginal REVOLUTION
These topics seem underexplored to me: Montesquieu Economics in the Talmud Rise of econometrics in the...
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UNOS Kills - Marginal REVOLUTION
I’ve long been an advocate of increasing the use of incentives in organ procurement for transplant;...
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TimeGPT-1 - Marginal REVOLUTION
In this paper, we introduce TimeGPT, the first foundation model for time series, capable of generating...
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Robert Whaples reviews *GOAT* - Marginal REVOLUTION
An excellent piece, here is one excerpt I enjoyed in particular: Cowen reads the John Maynard...
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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...
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Modi and investment - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes, India is doing well but the picture could be much better: During Modi’s tenure, GFCF...
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Philipp Strack wins the J.B. Clark award - Marginal REVOLUTION
Congratulations! Here is the AEA announcement and summary of his work. The post Philipp Strack wins...
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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...
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350+ coauthors study reproducibility in economics - Marginal REVOLUTION
Jon Hartley is one I know, here is the abstract: This study pushes our understanding of...
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Economists do it with models? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Collaborations in economics across genders increased (12.5% increase of women coauthors per 100 men-authored papers) after...
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A simple model of AI and social media - Marginal REVOLUTION
One MR reader, Luca Piron, writes to me: I found myself puzzled by a thought you...
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Your Subsidies are Undercutting My Subsidies! - Marginal REVOLUTION
NYTimes: Treasury officials say that they fear that elevated Chinese production targets are causing its firms...
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What should I ask Joe Stiglitz? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be having a Conversation with him, and please note this is the conversation I...
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Lockean homesteading for goats, bonus added - Marginal REVOLUTION
The mayor of an Italian island is attempting to solve an animal overpopulation problem with an...
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Algorithmic Collusion by Large Language Models - Marginal REVOLUTION
The rise of algorithmic pricing raises concerns of algorithmic collusion. We conduct experiments with algorithmic pricing...