~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (72)
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Dynamic surge pricing for Wendy's - Marginal REVOLUTION
“Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and...
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Do high interest rates get people down? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Unemployment is low and inflation is falling, but consumer sentiment remains depressed. This has confounded economists,...
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Why don't nations buy and sell territory more? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Egypt has agreed to a $35bn deal with the United Arab Emirates to develop the town of Ras el-Hekma...
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U.S. equity market dominance - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column: The worldwide dominance of US equities is...
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The California tax burden is driving people out - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit: California’s highest income...
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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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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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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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Zvi Mowshowitz covers my podcast with Dwarkesh Patel - Marginal REVOLUTION
It is very long, very detailed, and very good. Interesting throughout! Excerpt: Dealing with the third...
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My TLS essay on the Clinton administration - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the link, I am reviewing a bad book on the Clinton administration (A Fabulous...
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Economics of fertility chapter - Marginal REVOLUTION
100 pp. or so, comprehensive, by Matthias Doepkea, Anne Hannusch, Fabian Kindermannd, and Michèle Tertilt. Via...
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If econs could hoop - The New Bazaar - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is my podcast with Cardiff Garcia, now on-line and with transcript too. Cardiff proposed a...
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My new podcast with Dwarkesh Patel - Marginal REVOLUTION
We discussed how the insights of Hayek, Keynes, Smith, and other great economists help us make...
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Did the Trump tariffs help the heartland? - Marginal REVOLUTION
No, but they did get him some votes there: We study the economic and political consequences...
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Vitalik on AI and crypto - Marginal REVOLUTION
…we can expect to see in the 2020s that we did not see in the 2010s: the...
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The economics of illicit sand markets - Marginal REVOLUTION
Very few people are looking closely at the illegal sand system or calling for changes, however,...
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An important new paper on the costs of climate change - Marginal REVOLUTION
Forthcoming in ReStud, I haven’t had the chance to read it yet: To analyze climate change...
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What are the actual dangers of advanced AI? - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the focus of my latest Bloomberg column, 2x the normal length. I cannot cover...
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The Contractual Origins of High-Rent Urban Blight - Marginal REVOLUTION
Have you ever wondered why empty storefronts in major cities stay empty for so long? There...
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When will the world have its first trillionaire? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Not anytime soon, as I argue in my Bloomberg column, here is one of the arguments:...
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Quick tour of Argentina's fiscal deficit (from my email, anonymous author) - Marginal REVOLUTION
I won’t double indent, but this is not by me, though I agree with it: “I...
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Will Milei succeed in Argentina? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I give him a 30-40% chance, which is perhaps generous because I am rooting for him. ...