~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (568)
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The economics of dinosaur brand names - Marginal REVOLUTION
But unlike a full-grown T. rex, which would be about the size of a city bus,...
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Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Scott Sumner on money/macro GOAT (I largely agree with his perspective and picks). 2. Monopsony...
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Cultural Values and Productivity - Marginal REVOLUTION
By Andras Ek, forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy: This paper estimates differences in human...
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What I've been reading - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers, The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform...
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Monday assorted links, comments, and jabs - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. A claim that we are in a new world of RBC theory. 2. Orson Welles...
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Arizona fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Arizona now uses 3 percent less water than it did in 1957, despite having a population...
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A City Not a Museum - Marginal REVOLUTION
Good Binyamin Appelbaum piece on the difficulties of building in NYC. The data will be familiar...
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A textual analysis of Enlightenment ideals - Marginal REVOLUTION
Using textual analysis of 173,031 works printed in England between 1500 and 1900, we test whether...
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Is Tom Cruise actor GOAT? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes says I, and here is Wikipedia for reference. Adam Ozimek (from my email) agrees: Rewatching...
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How to make you stupider - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Maine official who moved to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot...
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Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. What Kent Hendricks learned this year, always good. 2. NYT calls for the total destruction...
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Uber and Traffic Fatalities - Marginal REVOLUTION
Abstract: Previous studies of the effect of ridesharing on traffic fatalities have yielded inconsistent, often contradictory...