~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (561)
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Does the Gender Wage Gap Actually Reflect Taste Discrimination Against Women?
One explanation of the gender wage gap is taste discrimination, as in Becker (1957). We test...
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Monday assorted links
1. The world’s most elite sober coach? (FT…his fees seem low to me?) 2. El Salvador...
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Robert Paul Wolff, RIP
He has passed, here is one obituary. The post Robert Paul Wolff, RIP appeared first on...
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Genetic Prediction and Adverse Selection
In 1994 I published Genetic Testing: An Economic and Contractarian Analysis which discussed how genetic testing...
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o1 pro
Often I don’t write particular posts because I feel it is obvious to everybody. Yet it...
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Sundry observations on the Trump tariffs
Brad Setser estimates the costs at 0.8 percent of U.S: gdp. I am not sure if...
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Remember when I said Luka was overrated?
Oh the howls that claim elicited. Basically Dallas did not want to give him a Supermax...
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Peace and Free Trade
In The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu famously argued that: …Peace is the natural effect of...
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What I’ve been reading
Owen Hatherley, Militant Modernism. A very good short book, defending “left wing modernism,” a much maligned...
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Saturday assorted links
1. Opportunity cost?? 2. Is Tether the most profitable company in the world per employee? 3....
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Letting China into the WTO was not the key decision
We study China’s export growth to the United States from 1950–2008, using a structural model to...
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U.S. Infrastructure: 1929-2023
By Ray C. Fair, an important contribution: This paper examines the history of U.S. infrastructure since...
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The new tariffs are bad
Or are they tariff threats instead? Still bad! From the FT: Donald Trump has said he...
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The wisdom of Dwarkesh
Perhaps he imbibed a dose of Garett Jones?: Even people who expect human-level AI soon are...
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Friday assorted links
1. The Wandering Minstrel (Irish song). 2. My 2008 post on Sarah Palin. A bit too...
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*The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power*
By Amy Sall. I love this picture book, or should I say photo book? Most of...
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What should I ask Chris Arnade?
From Wikipedia: Chris Arnade…is an American photographer and writer. He worked for 20 years as a bond...
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How did China’s internet become so cool amongst America’s youth?
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column. Here is part of the argument: TikTok...
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The culture that is German (Roman)
We compare present-day regions that were advanced by Roman culture with those that remained outside of...
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Thursday assorted links
1. Malthusian migrations: the French diaspora is relatively small because the French had their fertility transition...
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FDA Deregulation of E-Cigarettes Saved Lives and Spurred Innovation
What would happen to drug development if the FDA lost its authority to prohibit new drugs?...
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Keynes on the Soviet Union
I had not known of this passage, which I am packaging with its introduction from Gavan...
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The forward march of computer use, AI edition
I must admit, though, that the thing that scared me most about HudZah was that he...
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Chris Barber asks me to give AI-related advice
…for people in various stages and situations of life. You will find the discussion here. The...