~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (93)
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Two Updates on the Value of Vaccines - Marginal REVOLUTION
1) From the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (abstract...
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South Dakota is trying to hold on - Marginal REVOLUTION
Map of the TFRs by US state for 2023, based on recently released birth data from...
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Rent Controls - Marginal REVOLUTION
Ryan Bourne has a good rundown on rent controls in Argentina. In 2020 Argentina introduced a...
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Quick tour of Argentina's fiscal deficit (from my email, anonymous author) - Marginal REVOLUTION
I won’t double indent, but this is not by me, though I agree with it: “I...
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Will Milei succeed in Argentina? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I give him a 30-40% chance, which is perhaps generous because I am rooting for him. ...
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Miss Information - Marginal REVOLUTION
Miss America, Miss United States and Miss USA are three different people. The post Miss Information...
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David Brooks on bureaucracy - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology now has almost eight times as many nonfaculty employees as faculty employees. In...
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Positive noises about Latin America - Marginal REVOLUTION
Latin America has two-thirds of world lithium reserves and about 40 per cent of its copper....
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World's First Dominant Assurance Contract Platform - Marginal REVOLUTION
In September I alerted you to a crowdfunding campaign to produce a dominant assurance contract/refund bonus...
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Back to the Future: Power Dishwashers! - Marginal REVOLUTION
Why do today’s dishwashers typically take more than 2 hours to run through a normal cycle...
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Kamil Kovar on the German debt brake (from my email) - Marginal REVOLUTION
I was wondering if you would consider writing a post about the German debt brake in...
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Okie-dokie... - Marginal REVOLUTION
US Intelligence Shows Flawed China Missiles Led Xi to Purge Army China missiles filled with water,...
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Predictions for 2024 - Marginal REVOLUTION
Bari Weiss interviews myself, Niall Ferguson, John McWhorter, Peter Attia, Nate Silver, and others about the...
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Why Britain's economy is failing - Marginal REVOLUTION
In the past five years, the number of applications to connect to the electricity grid —...
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Are cities for tourists or residents? - Marginal REVOLUTION
And at what margin? A new ideological struggle is brewing, yet we have not yet recognized...
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Arizona fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Arizona now uses 3 percent less water than it did in 1957, despite having a population...
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How to make you stupider - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Maine official who moved to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 Republican primary ballot...
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Uber and Traffic Fatalities - Marginal REVOLUTION
Abstract: Previous studies of the effect of ridesharing on traffic fatalities have yielded inconsistent, often contradictory...
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Nicholas Kristof on good things in 2023 - Marginal REVOLUTION
Just about the worst calamity that can befall a human is to lose a child, and...
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U.S. high-skilled immigration - Marginal REVOLUTION
Major win for the US on high-skilled immigration policy: “USCIS data show that the number of...
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Summary trends of 2023 - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is my biggest worry: Another takeaway...