Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “Dual promotion” as a strategy. 2. Data on rising psychological distress in America. 3. 5-year...
Why have college completion rates increased? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Jeffrey T. Denning, Eric R. Eide, Kevin J. Mumford, Richard W. Patterson and Merrill Warnick tell...
George Washington Can Be Proud - Marginal REVOLUTION
In recent years formerly proud universities such as Georgetown, Princeton, and MIT have cravenly failed to...
New York City fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
The top 1 percent of earners, who make more than $804,000 a year, contributed 41 percent...
Democracy for our Mars colony? - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: The Yale proposal...
Rent seeking and the decline of the Florentine school - Marginal REVOLUTION
Economists have claimed that the invisible hand of competition is behind the historical episodes of outstanding...
Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. I would give the piece a different normative twist, but this Tablet piece is a...
Blockchains: A Promise Enforcement Engine - Marginal REVOLUTION
Anthony Lee Zhang on blockchains How do blockchains change the state of things? Blockchains are an...
The glories of Irish economics - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yesterday I mentioned the underrated Irish Enlightenment (don’t forget Toland!), today I will briefly lay out...
More guns, more crime? - Marginal REVOLUTION
The full title of the paper is “More Guns, More Unintended Consequences: The Effects of Right-to-Carry...
Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Status-seeking in women is more tolerated than is power-seeking. 2. Visual graphic on the migration...
What should I ask Hanif Abdurraqib? - Marginal REVOLUTION
It will be a conversation, though not a recorded CWT. Here is Wikipedia on him: Hanif...
What I've been reading - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Andrea G. McDowell, We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush. An important law...
How much pilot training should be required? - Marginal REVOLUTION
[Derek} Thompson: To what extent do you think regulatory policy is making America’s airlines particularly fragile to...
Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1, Ancient Greek and Roman home and city sizes. 2. The past is a foreign country,...
The intellectual mistake of once-and-for-allism - Marginal REVOLUTION
One of the most common intellectual mistakes! Do note however that it is an efficient mistake...
Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria,” Volland said. “To put it into context, it...
The controversial economics of abortion law - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is a good and useful survey by Jon Hilsenrath and Amara Omeokwe (WSJ). The post...
*How the World Became Rich* - Marginal REVOLUTION
By Mark Koyama (my colleague) and Jared Rubin, with the subtitle The Historical Origins of Economic...
AlphaZero Ideas - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is a new and exciting paper from Julio González-Díaz and Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, here is the...
Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Our response to Monkeypox has been less than impressive. 2. Why are some nations more...
*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...
An AI does a CWT between me and "Janet Yellen" - Marginal REVOLUTION
TYLER COWEN: I want to ask you a series of questions about what’s overrated and underrated....
That was then, this is now - Marginal REVOLUTION
On July 7 [1917], while the unsuccessful hunt for fugitive Bolsheviks continued, Prince Lvov resigned as...
Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Claims about overnight excess returns. Big if true. 2. Thread about the Malaysian economy. 3....
Capital is drying up for biotech companies - Marginal REVOLUTION
Just nine biotech companies have listed in the US this year, raising a total of $1bn,...
What I've been reading - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Ian Morris, Geography is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000 Year History. None of...
The great stagnation and the primacy of foreign policy - Marginal REVOLUTION
One cause (and effect) of the great stagnation, as emphasized by Peter Thiel and others (including...
Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “Fazio found that attractiveness was negatively associated with support for redistribution – this was the...
The Birds and the Bees - Marginal REVOLUTION
Ocean City, NJ hires falconers to keep the seagulls off the boardwalk–in fact, they are looking...
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...
Regulatory quality is declining - Marginal REVOLUTION
One example of such evidence-free regulation in recent years comes from the Department of Health and...
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...
Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. How Vitalik travels. No umbrella! 2. Suwalki Gap named the most dangerous place on earth...
Roland Fryer on DEI - Marginal REVOLUTION
One of the most important developments in the study of racial inequality has been the quantification...
The predictability of Chicago shooting victims - Marginal REVOLUTION
Out-of-sample accuracy is strikingly high: of the 500 people with the highest predicted risk [ of...
Rich people pay higher mark-ups - Marginal REVOLUTION
One implication is that income inequality isn’t quite as extreme as measured. Another implication is that...
Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Racial discrimination in the book trade. 2. Fintan O’Toole on Dublin and Ulysses. 3. “Today,...
Grade non-disclosure agreements - Marginal REVOLUTION
I had never heard of those, but it turns out they are common at top business...
GiveDirectly to Administer Cash Grants Pilot in Chicago - Marginal REVOLUTION
Long time readers will know that both Tyler and I have been promoting GiveDirectly since its...
Does economic literacy encourage polarization? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Hume’s revenge! Previous research highlights the role that political knowledge plays in forming political positions and...
The problem of twin addresses Leibniz was wrong - Marginal REVOLUTION
2 George Street BB5 0HD, and 2 George Street BB5 0ET, both in Accrington, Lancashire, are only...
Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. The Malcolm Gladwell/Paul Simon audiobook is very good. Hearts and Bones is my favorite Simon...
Recent TFR by income - Marginal REVOLUTION
I think a lot of people don’t know this relationship has a U-shape. pic.twitter.com/Q23oHtzmiY — Matthew...
Work From Home and commercial real estate values - Marginal REVOLUTION
We study the impact of remote work on the commercial office sector. We document large shifts...
Claims about artillery - Marginal REVOLUTION
In short, US annual artillery production would at best only last for 10 days to two...
Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. An obvious but still underrated point: “we find parenting attitudes strongly predict paternalistic policy attitudes—more...
Germany will finally have to pay for Italy's debts - Marginal REVOLUTION
Bond yields of countries such as Italy and Spain shot up to their highest level for...
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...