~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (571)
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What I've been reading - Marginal REVOLUTION
Benjamin Nathans, To The Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident...
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Will Japan have a financial crisis anytime soon? - Marginal REVOLUTION
The odds are against this, and most market prices are well-behaved, noting that the yen was...
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Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Greenpeace vs. Golden Rice. And Michael Magoon essays on Progress Studies. 2. Brutalist churches. 3....
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False Necessity is the Mother of Dumb Invention - Marginal REVOLUTION
Recently, I have seen two innovations in retail, AI cashiers and human cashiers but working remotely...
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Updated estimates on immigration and wages - Marginal REVOLUTION
In this article we revive, extend and improve the approach used in a series of influential...
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Dean Ball on the new California AI bill (from my email) - Marginal REVOLUTION
SB 1047 was written, near as I can tell, to satisfy the concerns of a small...
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On deficient British growth (from the comments) - Marginal REVOLUTION
UK is a finance economy and EU/world ex-US has had terrible stock market performance since then....
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Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Self-navigating car navigating traffic in India. 2. Do progressive prosecutors lead to higher crime rates?...
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Public Choice Outreach! - Marginal REVOLUTION
There are just a few spots left for the Public Choice Outreach Conference! This is a...
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Progress in Argentina? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Monthly inflation in Argentina could fall below 10% in April, a sign that the government’s policies...
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Brexit and trade with the EU (from the comments) - Marginal REVOLUTION
These annecdotes do not reflect the data . From (remain leaning) UK in A Changing Europe...
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Ross Douthat, telephone! (it's happening) - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Catholic advocacy group Catholic Answers released an AI priest called “Father Justin” earlier this week...
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Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Lazarus Lake update. 2. Robin Hanson responds to Scott Alexander. I do not entirely agree...
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Forthcoming growth winners? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I haven’t been following these countries closely, so I don’t have any “takes,” but I will...
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Apportioning the causes of the UK growth shortfall - Marginal REVOLUTION
Take the basic non-growth of the UK economy since 2008 (productivity, real wages, per capita gdp)...
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Why I don't think the USG will default - Marginal REVOLUTION
Public debt ratios in Portugal and Greece have declined at an unprecedented pace from their pandemic...
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Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. NYT obituary for Michael Jensen. 2. Brain-like computer with water and salt? 3. More on...
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Culture splat (a few broad spoilers) - Marginal REVOLUTION
Challengers is a good and original movie. Imagine a 2024 rom com, except the behavior and...
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*Native Nations* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The author is Kathleen Duval, and the subtitle is A Millennium in North America. This is...
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Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Nandan Nilekani’s vision for the “Finternet” is to enable individuals to transfer any financial asset,...
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Post correction and retraction - Marginal REVOLUTION
Apologies! I took down my post based on this tweet, which upon further reflection struck me...
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Hassan Sayed, banned from Princeton? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Hassan Sayed, a fifth year PhD candidate in economics, it seems was banned from Princeton. Ostensibly...
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The work culture that is German, something about France too - Marginal REVOLUTION
In Germany, robots must obey the sabbath pic.twitter.com/vphLpXAA0e — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 25, 2024 As...
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Trade reform and economic growth - Marginal REVOLUTION
From the excellent Doug Irwin: Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster...