Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Do people still remember Ava Gardner? 2. Update on programming language performance in economics. 3....
Who is Wealthy? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Branko Milanovic argues against comparing wealth over time: The difficulty of measurement of wealth between different...
What should I ask Philip Tetlock? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be having a Conversation with him, no associated public event. So what should I...
Health care economist sentences to ponder - Marginal REVOLUTION
Various ideas to cut costs in Medicare and Medicaid have been proposed in recent years. Health...
*Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World* - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the new book by Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei. It is perhaps not...
Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Sino-African architecture. 2. Phasing out squat toilets in Tokyo (a few years ago they were...
Patients as Consumers in the Market for Medicine: Bedside Manner > Survival Probability - Marginal REVOLUTION
Young and Chen, 2020: Consumer-driven health care is often heralded as a new quality paradigm in...
An argument for weaker copyright in books - Marginal REVOLUTION
From Barbara Biasi and Petra Moser: Copyrights, which establish intellectual property in music, science,and other creative...
Claims about white people - Marginal REVOLUTION
Black women for instance, present a consistent pattern of improvement in happiness across decades, while White...
Does digital socialism have a future? - Marginal REVOLUTION
No, not a good future, according to Jesús Fernández-Villaverde: Can artificial intelligence, in particular, machine learning...
Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Martin Gurri watch, Scandinavian Airlines edition. 2. Profile of Zucman and Saez (NYT). 3. How...
Very good sentences - Marginal REVOLUTION
Nearly all of the biggest challenges in America are, at some level, a housing problem. Rising...
A central bank digital currency is not a good idea, redux - Marginal REVOLUTION
The introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) allows the central bank to engage in...
The missionary roots of liberal democracy - Marginal REVOLUTION
I had not known of this important piece. From 2012, by Robert D. Woodberry, at the National...
Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Toward a simple critique of applications and why most of them fail. 2. Additional results...
Willingness to be Paid: Who Trains for Tech Jobs? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is a new paper from Joy Buchanan, Emergent Ventures winner: Having a larger high-skill workforce...
In praise of art books - Marginal REVOLUTION
Running out of things to read? Do you ever have the sneaky feeling that books might...
Education sentences to ponder - Marginal REVOLUTION
The unemployment rate for young college graduates exceeds that of the general population, and about 41 percent...