~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (26)
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Why is the Biden Administration Against Fee Transparency in Education? - Marginal REVOLUTION
President Biden has made a big deal of simplifying fees: The FTC is proposing a rule that…would...
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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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Teaching the Super Simple Solow Model - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here’s my talk on teaching the super simple Solow model which Tyler and I present in...
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My Conversation with Fareed Zakaria - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. You can tell he knows what an interview is! ...
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Teaching the Solow Model - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Solow model is a foundational model for understanding economic growth. Yet it’s typically not taught...
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The Puzzling Law and Economics of Out-of-State Tuition - Marginal REVOLUTION
Bryan Caplan has a good post on out-of-state tuition: [State schools] almost always charge students from...
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My podcast with Thomas Burnett - Marginal REVOLUTION
Thomas is at the Templeton Foundation, here is the link (with transcript), here is one bit:...
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My excellent Conversation with Marc Rowan - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the video, audio, and transcript, taped in his Apollo office in NYC. Here is...
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Public Choice Outreach 2024! - Marginal REVOLUTION
Please apply and send your students to the 2024 Public Choice Outreach Conference! The conference is...
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Claude 3 Opus as economic analyst - Marginal REVOLUTION
Via Francis Santora, Hudson County, NJ. The post Claude 3 Opus as economic analyst appeared first...
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Swedish economists seem to be doing OK - Marginal REVOLUTION
419 Swedish economists were asked which economics concepts are most important to understand and manage economics...
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The Black-Scholes-Merton Options Pricing Equation - Marginal REVOLUTION
A superb video on the history and mathematics of options pricing from Veritasium. The post The...
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Nixonian Politics and Student Debt Cancellations - Marginal REVOLUTION
In the political economy chapter of our textbook, Modern Principles of Economics, Tyler and I discuss...
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Random Admissions Above the Bar - Marginal REVOLUTION
Jon Klick, Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (and a distinguished...
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Nash's Contributions to Mathematics - Marginal REVOLUTION
Nash won the Nobel prize in Economics for his 2-page proof of Nash equilibrium, among the...
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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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Literacy or Loyalty? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Why does schooling in much of the developing world not result in much in the way...
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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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In Praise of Non-conformity - Marginal REVOLUTION
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to...
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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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Duke History of Economic Thought Summer Institute - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University will be hosting another Summer...
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My history of economic thought reading list - Marginal REVOLUTION
History of Economic Thought syllabus The honor code applies to this class. Accommodations will be made...
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My podcast with Brink Lindsey - Marginal REVOLUTION
He is starting a new podcast and I am perhaps the first episode? There is video...
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Cultural Values and Productivity - Marginal REVOLUTION
By Andras Ek, forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy: This paper estimates differences in human...