~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (562)
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A portrait of Portugal - Marginal REVOLUTION
…at least half of a population of ten million depend on the state in some way—35% are...
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Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Should we change species to save them? (NYT) 2. Mechanical watch. 3. Why is it...
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The Adderall Shortage: DEA versus FDA in a Regulatory War - Marginal REVOLUTION
A record number of drugs are in shortage across the United States. In any particular case,...
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Michael Cook on Iran - Marginal REVOLUTION
Our primary concern in this chapter will be Iran, though toward the end we will shift...
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GPT-4-Turbo still doesn't answer this question well - Marginal REVOLUTION
“Name three famous people who all share the exact same birth date and year.” Usually it...
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Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Austrian economist Walter Block is now a columnist for Israel Hayom. 2. Progress against dengue....
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The Culture that is Germany - Marginal REVOLUTION
FT: When it launched its fully automated stores four years ago, Germany’s regional supermarket chain Tegut...
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*The Carnation Revolution* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The author is Alex Fernandes, and the subtitle is The Day Portugal’s Dictatorship Fell. A very...
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Samuelson-Stolper, writ anew - Marginal REVOLUTION
At Sansan Chicken in Long Island City, Queens, the cashier beamed a wide smile and recommended...
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Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Sorry people, but I’m not convinced by the whole anti-cavities thing. Stuart Richie also comments....
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Voxsplainer on smart phones and teen mental health - Marginal REVOLUTION
A very good piece, by Eric Levitz, note Vox is not renowned for defending Big Tech....
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Should I trust this paper? - Marginal REVOLUTION
We examine the relation between earnings information content and the use of trust words, such as...
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Fair coins aren't fair - Marginal REVOLUTION
Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies...
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It's happening, anachronistic imaginary movie preview edition - Marginal REVOLUTION
https://www.youtube.com/@abandonedfilms For a sampler, try The Hobbit: Via the apparently excellent Bruce Cleaver. The post It’s...
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Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “The largest office building in St. Louis has sold for $3.5 million, per WSJ. In...
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Pay For Performance Increases Performance (Water Runs Downhill) - Marginal REVOLUTION
In my 2011 book, Launching the Innovation Renaissance, I wrote: At times, teacher pay in the...
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*Civil War* - Marginal REVOLUTION
This movie was more cinematically serious than I was expecting, and with some odd (but mostly...
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History of economic thought paper ideas - Marginal REVOLUTION
These topics seem underexplored to me: Montesquieu Economics in the Talmud Rise of econometrics in the...
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Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Some progress on the Moderna cancer vaccine. 2. The culture that is New Zealand (excruciating,...
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Scrabble markets in everything, okie-dokie edition - Marginal REVOLUTION
For the first time in 75 years, Mattel is making a major change to the iconic...
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UNOS Kills - Marginal REVOLUTION
I’ve long been an advocate of increasing the use of incentives in organ procurement for transplant;...
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TimeGPT-1 - Marginal REVOLUTION
In this paper, we introduce TimeGPT, the first foundation model for time series, capable of generating...
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Udio - Marginal REVOLUTION
Introducing Udio, an app for music creation and sharing that allows you to generate amazing music...