Bookmarks (62)
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What should I ask Hanif Abdurraqib? - Marginal REVOLUTION
It will be a conversation, though not a recorded CWT. Here is Wikipedia on him: Hanif...
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What I've been reading - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Andrea G. McDowell, We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush. An important law...
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*How the World Became Rich* - Marginal REVOLUTION
By Mark Koyama (my colleague) and Jared Rubin, with the subtitle The Historical Origins of Economic...
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*Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne* - Marginal REVOLUTION
This new book by Katherine Rundell, now out in the UK but still pending in the...
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That was then, this is now - Marginal REVOLUTION
On July 7 [1917], while the unsuccessful hunt for fugitive Bolsheviks continued, Prince Lvov resigned as...
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Rereading Edward Gibbon on the fall of Rome - Marginal REVOLUTION
I hadn’t looked at this work for a long time, and I was struck by how...
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Very interesting Edward Nevraumont review of *Talent* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The review makes many points, here is one excerpt: Everywhere I have worked, the organization’s hiring...
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My excellent Conversation with Marc Andreessen - Marginal REVOLUTION
I’ve been wanting to do this one for some while, and Marc did not disappoint. Here...
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The book of the year? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yale University Press is republishing Mancur Olson’s The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation,...
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James Joyce, entrepreneur - Marginal REVOLUTION
At the critical elevator pitch, Joyce whetted investors’ appetites with the opening gambit: Dublin, a European...
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"Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?" - Marginal REVOLUTION
A Hacker News thread, via Samarth Jajoo. The post “Which book can attract anyone towards your...
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What I've been reading - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Dan Werb, The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronavirus and the Search for a Cure. ...
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Tim Harford covers *Talent* and parallel design - Marginal REVOLUTION
And Brian Eno. Here is one opening bit from the FT: Consider the advice for job...
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Rubin and Koyama on the Industrial Revolution - Marginal REVOLUTION
From Dylan Matthews: The big question is what drove this transformation. Historians, economists, and anthropologists have...
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My Conversation with Jamal Greene - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the summary: Jamal and Tyler...
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What should I ask Will MacAskill? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be doing a Conversation with him. From Wikipedia: William MacAskill is a Scottish philosopher,...
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What I've been reading - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Dervla Murphy, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle. She covered 3000 miles in...
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The Parent Trap-Review of Hilger - Marginal REVOLUTION
Nate Hilger’s has written a brave book. Almost everyone will find something to hate about The...
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A Heideggerian review of *Talent* - Marginal REVOLUTION
Two questions that Cowen and Gross highlight strike me as deeply Heideggerian. “What tabs are open...
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*21st Century Monetary Policy* - Marginal REVOLUTION
I am pleased to have received an autographed copy of this very carefully done work. I...
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Cryptoeconomics! - Marginal REVOLUTION
The crypto market is up! The crypto market is down! The roller coaster can be fearfully...
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My Conversation with the excellent Daniel Gross - Marginal REVOLUTION
This is Daniel Gross my co-author on Talent and the venture capitalist, to be clear. And...
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Russia fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
A study of Russian publications in the 1990s found that some 39 percent of all nonfiction...
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My *Talent* podcast with the excellent David Wright - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the episode page (includes transcript): https://www.buzzsprout.com/126848/10628363-tyler-cowen-on-talent Here is the Youtube link. The post My...