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The bureaucratization of U.S. foreign policy - Marginal REVOLUTION
The NSC [National Security Council] was established in the 1947 National Security Act, which named the...
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Does GDPR even boost privacy? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Maybe not: This paper studies the effects of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on...
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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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When defense is not a public good - Marginal REVOLUTION
Security measures that deter crime may unwittingly displace it to neighboring areas, but evidence of displacement...
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From Mark Lutter - charter city for Zambia? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I’m pleased to announce the Charter Cities Institute has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Zambian Development...
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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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What is the best model for thinking about this lack of higher ed reporting? - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Education Department opened investigations into Harvard and Yale as part of a continuing review that...
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Transcript of my chat with Thomas Kalil - Marginal REVOLUTION
We have the transcript live on our Day One Project site: https://www.dayoneproject.org/cowen-kalil-transcript Here was the video version,...
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Might the coronavirus bring freer speech to China? - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: Chinese citizens are...
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Utah sends employees to Mexico for lower prescription prices - Marginal REVOLUTION
Ann Lovell had never owned a passport before last year. Now, the 62-year-old teacher is a...
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What causes car deaths and how to limit them - Marginal REVOLUTION
Perhaps the biggest reason why we don’t see more fatal crashes on freeways is that there...
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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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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...
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Pigouvian in-kind time horn tax in Mumbai - Marginal REVOLUTION
For the Mumbai’s perpetual honkers, who love to blare the horns of their vehicles even when...
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The economist as scapegoat - Marginal REVOLUTION
Russ Roberts defends Milton Friedman (and many others, implicitly), excerpt: What about spending for public schools?...
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Toward a more general theory of task complexity - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is a theme running throughout my latest Bloomberg column, here are some excerpts: Why so...
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The vaccine makers have solved for the equilibrium - Marginal REVOLUTION
GSK has made a corporate decision that while it wants to help in public health emergencies,...
