~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (568)
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Sunday assorted links and stuff - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Lookism in sentencing decisions. 2. An autonomous vehicle was set on fire by a crowd...
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What should I ask Michael Nielsen? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be doing a Conversation with him. No description of Michael quite does him justice,...
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Sticky norms - Marginal REVOLUTION
Shanhong Luo, a professor at Fayetteville State University, studies the factors behind attraction between romantic partners,...
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How much of our boom has been an immigration boom? - Marginal REVOLUTION
From Scott Sumner: Matt Yglesias directed me to a new CBO report, which confirms that immigration...
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Correlations between spouses - Marginal REVOLUTION
Correlations between spouses Extraversion: r= .005Neuroticism: .082Height: .227Weight: .154Education: .5Political party: .6 "Mates tend to be...
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Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Liverpool man who inherited £100,000 lets 12 strangers give the money away. 2. Jonathan Eaton,...
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What should I ask Coleman Hughes? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be doing a Conversation with him, based in part around his new book The...
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Is El Salvador special? - Marginal REVOLUTION
But Bukele copycats and those who believe his model can be replicated far and wide overlook...
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How much does status competition lower Korean fertility? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Using a quantitative heterogeneous-agent model calibrated to Korea, we find that fertility would be 28% higher...
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Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. NBA In-Season Tournament renamed ‘NBA Cup’ with Emirates as a sponsor. 2. “We instruct GPT...
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Literacy or Loyalty? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Why does schooling in much of the developing world not result in much in the way...
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My notes/outline on the rise of Scottish economic thought - Marginal REVOLUTION
1650s, wars with England, invasions, Cromwell repels the Scots 1690s – Darien Scheme in Panama, Scots...
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Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “Conservatives share a terrible epistemological ecosystem, where false claims go viral much more often.” 2....
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Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search - Marginal REVOLUTION
Scaling seems to be working here: The recent breakthrough successes in machine learning are mainly attributed...
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Should AM radios be mandated in cars? - Marginal REVOLUTION
No. Here is my Bloomberg column to that effect, excerpt: Personally, I prefer to listen to...
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My Conversation with the excellent Ami Vitale - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, visual, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Ami Vitale is a...
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Might a Georgist land tax help revive Detroit? - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my Bloomberg column. Maybe they should try it for federalism/discovery purposes,...
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Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “That work suggested it was not how many times a word was repeated that predicted...
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Is Science a Public Good? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Science seems like a public good; in theory, ideas are non-rivalrous and non-excludable. But the closer...
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Will the Argentina province of La Rioja print its own currency? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Maybe so: Milei’s austerity is biting hard in La Rioja, an olive and wine region home...
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One reason why the disinflation proved so manageable - Marginal REVOLUTION
From a new and important paper by Xiwen Bai, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Yiliang Li, and Francesco Zanetti:...
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Comparing Large Language Models Against Lawyers - Marginal REVOLUTION
This paper presents a groundbreaking comparison between Large Language Models and traditional legal contract reviewers, Junior...
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The Global Distribution of College Graduate Quality - Marginal REVOLUTION
We measure college graduate quality—the average human capital of a college’s graduates—for graduates from 2,800 colleges...
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Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “…we demonstrate that when an organism needs to adapt to a multitude of environmental variables,...