~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (76)
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In Defense of Plagiarism - Marginal REVOLUTION
Google plagiarism and you will find definitions like “stealing someone else’s ideas” or “literary theft.” Here...
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R.I.P. The Scottish Enlightenment 1697-2024 - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Scottish Enlightenment will die on April 1st 2024, exactly 327 years, eight months and 24...
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Indiana's new intellectual diversity law for universities - Marginal REVOLUTION
Indiana’s Republican governor has just signed new law that introduces “intellectual diversity” as a standard for tenure decisions...
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Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Marginal REVOLUTION
We conducted the first randomized controlled trial to study the effect of AI assistance on human...
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Pacific Heights: A Movie Ahead of Its Time - Marginal REVOLUTION
Pacific Heights is a 1990 movie starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, and Matthew Modine. Conventionally described...
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My excellent Conversation with Marilynne Robinson - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is the episode summary: Marilynne Robinson is one...
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*Build, Baby, Build*, by Bryan Caplan - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is my blurb for the book: “Bryan Caplan is a pioneer in the use of graphic...
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The Puzzling Law and Economics of Out-of-State Tuition - Marginal REVOLUTION
Bryan Caplan has a good post on out-of-state tuition: [State schools] almost always charge students from...
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Haiti vs. the Dominican Republic - Marginal REVOLUTION
I am setting aside most of the cultural and “macro” issues, and just considering policy, in...
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Marc Andreessen and I talk AI at an a16z American Dynamism event - Marginal REVOLUTION
a16z has issued the talks from that event, and we are issuing it too, as a...
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Those new service sector jobs, squatter removal edition - Marginal REVOLUTION
Via the excellent Samir Varma, hail to Handyman Flash Shelton: After local law enforcement couldn’t help,...
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TikTok divestiture - Marginal REVOLUTION
I’ve blogged this in the past, and don’t have much to add to my previous views. ...
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The Irish reject a "Woke" constitutional change - Marginal REVOLUTION
Ireland’s effort to remove old-fashioned family values from its constitution suffered a double defeat Saturday as...
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In Conversation with Próspera CEO Erick Brimen & Vitalia Co-Founder Niklas Anzinger - Marginal REVOLUTION
During my visit to Prospera, one of Honduras’ private governments under the ZEDE law, I interviewed...
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A different perspective on power grid YIMBY and NIMBY (from my email) - Marginal REVOLUTION
Just flagging that while YIMBY is important…it’s only part of the solution. And it’s unclear just...
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We need YIMBY for the U.S. power grid - Marginal REVOLUTION
The amount of new transmission line installed in the United States has dropped sharply since 2013, when...
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It's happening, Albania fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
In the OpenAI blog post they mentioned "Albania using OpenAI tools to speed up its EU...
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Tide turning in Washington State? - Marginal REVOLUTION
From an MR reader: Good story here about one man in Washington state fighting the battle...
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What can be learned from Singaporean health care institutions? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Besides the usual, that is. Max Thilo of the UK has a new and excellent study...
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Further data on alcohol use amongst American youth - Marginal REVOLUTION
This paper provides the first long-run assessment of adolescent alcohol control policies on later-life health and...
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The Continuing Influence of Fast Grants - Marginal REVOLUTION
Fast Grants, the rapid COVID funding mechanism created by Tyler, Patrick Collison and Patrick Hsu continues...
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Monopolized organ collection - Marginal REVOLUTION
The nation’s 56 organ procurement organizations collect organs — mainly kidneys — from deceased donors at...
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Hazlett on T-Mobile/Sprint - Marginal REVOLUTION
Tom Hazlett whose op-ed on the T-Mobile Sprint merger I quoted earlier writes me: A few...
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Shruti Rajagopalan interviews Doug Irwin - Marginal REVOLUTION
Doug of course is one of the top trade economists. Here is the audio, video, and...