~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (161)
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Revisiting the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger - Marginal REVOLUTION
T-Mobile’s takeover of Sprint was controversial among analysts. “If this merger is not anticompetitive,” Eleanor Fox, a...
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Early French economics, my lecture notes - Marginal REVOLUTION
Early French moralists, some of them Jansenists: Pierre Nicole, La Rochefoucauld, etc. Invisible hand, idea of...
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Lithium - Marginal REVOLUTION
WEF 2002: The world could face lithium shortages by 2025, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says,...
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The California tax burden is driving people out - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit: California’s highest income...
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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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How much of our boom has been an immigration boom? - Marginal REVOLUTION
From Scott Sumner: Matt Yglesias directed me to a new CBO report, which confirms that immigration...
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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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My notes/outline on the rise of Scottish economic thought - Marginal REVOLUTION
1650s, wars with England, invasions, Cromwell repels the Scots 1690s – Darien Scheme in Panama, Scots...
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Might a Georgist land tax help revive Detroit? - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my Bloomberg column. Maybe they should try it for federalism/discovery purposes,...
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Is Science a Public Good? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Science seems like a public good; in theory, ideas are non-rivalrous and non-excludable. But the closer...
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Will the Argentina province of La Rioja print its own currency? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Maybe so: Milei’s austerity is biting hard in La Rioja, an olive and wine region home...
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One reason why the disinflation proved so manageable - Marginal REVOLUTION
From a new and important paper by Xiwen Bai, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Yiliang Li, and Francesco Zanetti:...
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The GPT-4 imaginary lie-based supply curve - Marginal REVOLUTION
New GPT4 prompt engineering tip: If you're tipping your GPT4, it's better to promise to tip...
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Zvi Mowshowitz covers my podcast with Dwarkesh Patel - Marginal REVOLUTION
It is very long, very detailed, and very good. Interesting throughout! Excerpt: Dealing with the third...
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My TLS essay on the Clinton administration - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the link, I am reviewing a bad book on the Clinton administration (A Fabulous...
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Why it is difficult for Milei to rein in inflation - Marginal REVOLUTION
Like the heat in the austral summer, inflation in Argentina is high and showing no sign...
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Economics of fertility chapter - Marginal REVOLUTION
100 pp. or so, comprehensive, by Matthias Doepkea, Anne Hannusch, Fabian Kindermannd, and Michèle Tertilt. Via...
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Matriline versus Patriline: Social Mobility in England, 1754-2023 - Marginal REVOLUTION
Greg Clark may well be the most important social scientist of the 21st century. His use...
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If econs could hoop - The New Bazaar - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is my podcast with Cardiff Garcia, now on-line and with transcript too. Cardiff proposed a...
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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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Did the Trump tariffs help the heartland? - Marginal REVOLUTION
No, but they did get him some votes there: We study the economic and political consequences...
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Vitalik on AI and crypto - Marginal REVOLUTION
…we can expect to see in the 2020s that we did not see in the 2010s: the...