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Random Critical Analysis on Health Care - Marginal REVOLUTION
The excellent Random Critical Analysis has a long blog post, really a short book, on why...
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What does the stock market tell us about the T-Mobile/Sprint merger? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is an excellent post by Alec Stapp, easy to read but a bit hard to...
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Why Didn't Ancient Rome have Dungeons and Dragons? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Why didn’t ancient Rome have Dungeons and Dragons? I am talking, of course, about the game....
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Penny Goldberg resigns as Chief Economist at the World Bank - Marginal REVOLUTION
When autocratic, oil-rich nations enjoy a windfall from higher crude prices, where does the money go?...
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Is the world fortunate that the coronavirus hit China first? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Is the world fortunate that the coronavirus hit China first? China’s government has totalitarian impulses but...
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Why are people getting worse at The Price is Right? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Americans are worse at The Price Is Right than they used to be. On the game show, which...
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My Conversation with Tim Harford - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the transcript and audio, here is part of the summary: Tim joined Tyler to...
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Emi Nakamura, 2019 John Bates Clark award winner - Marginal REVOLUTION
From a new JEP appreciation by Janice Eberly and Michael Woodford: Emi’s exposure to economics began...
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Directed Innovation in the Artificial Limb Industry - Marginal REVOLUTION
Innovation responds to both demand and supply. New scientific discoveries can arise exogenously and lower the...
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Coronavirus markets in everything - Marginal REVOLUTION
Government officials across Hubei province, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, are desperate to find ways...
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Poor Economics - Marginal REVOLUTION
In Delhi, street hawkers will sell food, flowers, and balloons to cars paused at an intersection...
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Coronavirus multilateral insurance markets in everything - Marginal REVOLUTION
As financial markets fretted over the spread of a coronavirus outbreak in China this week, one...
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Pollution in India and the World - Marginal REVOLUTION
I spoke on the negative effects of air pollution on health and GDP at Brookings India...
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Is (productive) big business taking over services? - Marginal REVOLUTION
From today’s WSJ, by Chang-Tai Hsieh and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg: If you live in a midsize American...
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DIY Pancreas? - Marginal REVOLUTION
People suffering from diabetes have turned to sophisticated do-it-yourself technologies. Here’s the abstract to an excellent...
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An anonymous reader on talent misallocation and bureaucratization - Marginal REVOLUTION
Building upon my recent Bloomberg column on old people getting the interesting jobs, a reader writes...
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The Zoning Straight-Jacket - Marginal REVOLUTION
In a new paper, Robert Ellickson makes a simple but important point: local land-use zoning freezes...
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What is the best way to tax food? - Marginal REVOLUTION
We analyze how a sales tax levied on all food products impacts the consumption of healthy...
