~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (62)
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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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Economics graduate school bleg - Marginal REVOLUTION
What percentage of individuals attending economics graduate school — at the higher levels — have an...
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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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Very good sentences - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yesterday, someone asked me to elaborate on talent picking and why “narrowing the subset” matters. It’s...
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My Conversation with the very excellent Masaaki Suzuki - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript, we recorded in NYC. Here is the episode summary:...
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Dwarkesh Patel with Patrick Collison - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is my episode with @patrickc We discuss: – what it takes to process $1 trillion/year–...
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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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Emergent Ventures winners, 32nd cohort - Marginal REVOLUTION
Anson Yu, Waterloo, telemetry devices that can detect compromised hardware devices to protect our electrical grid...
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A periodic reminder of your pending competitive inadequacy - Marginal REVOLUTION
Many people think “I will do […], AI will not anytime soon do [….] as well...
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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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What should I ask Michael Nielsen? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be doing a Conversation with him. No description of Michael quite does him justice,...
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What should I ask Coleman Hughes? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I will be doing a Conversation with him, based in part around his new book 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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The Global Distribution of College Graduate Quality - Marginal REVOLUTION
We measure college graduate quality—the average human capital of a college’s graduates—for graduates from 2,800 colleges...
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Student Demand and the Supply of College Courses - Marginal REVOLUTION
From a recent Jacob Light paper: In an era of rapid technological and social change, do...
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What would Anthony Downs say? - Marginal REVOLUTION
You need your harvard ‘key’ account to vote. If you need help getting access to your...
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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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Alice Evans on the ideological gender divide - Marginal REVOLUTION
“I suggest, Men and women tend to think alike in societies where there is Close-knit interdependence,...
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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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What should I ask Marilynne Robinson? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with her. Here is from Wikipedia: Marilynne Summers Robinson (born...
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My Conversation with Rebecca F. Kuang - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript, here is the episode summary: Rebecca F. Kuang just...