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How is AI education going to work? - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column. Here is the first part of the...
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GOAT podcast with Canadian - Marginal REVOLUTION
…the Curious Task podcast episode you recorded with Matt the other day is out now. Here...
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Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Revisionist take on why woodpeckers do not get concussions. 2. The supposed rise in U.S....
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A congestion theory of unemployment fluctuations - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yusuf Mercan, Benjamin Schoefer, and Petr Sedláček, newly published in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. I best...
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How sticky are wages in nominal terms? - Marginal REVOLUTION
There is a new paper on this topic, with what seems to be very good data:...
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Duke History of Economic Thought Summer Institute - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University will be hosting another Summer...
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Tyler Cowen on Undertone podcast - Marginal REVOLUTION
New episode with @tylercowen. We talk about Tyler's implicit theology, literature in translation, Jonathan Swift, Peter...
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Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. My Feb.21 Arsht Center live event with Peter Thiel, “Political Theology,” register here. 2. One...
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The Role of Friends in the Opioid Epidemic - Marginal REVOLUTION
Your friends are not always good for you: The role of friends in the US opioid...
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Shrinking populations will limit convergence - Marginal REVOLUTION
By me, from Bloomberg: The main culprit could be the fertility crisis. In Latin America, for...
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U.S.A. facts of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
The R&D spending of Amazon is greater than the R&D spending of all companies and government...
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Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. “Arctic Ice harvests ice from the fjords of Greenland, and then ships them to the...
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Ben Casnocha on food procedures in Tokyo - Marginal REVOLUTION
No matter how many people sit at a table, generally only one menu will be put...
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Is real estate in Roatan undervalued? - Marginal REVOLUTION
By a lot. I was briefly on the island, and also visited Próspera there (I thank my...
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Prompts for economists - Marginal REVOLUTION
This page contains example prompts and responses intended to showcase how generative AI, namely LLMs like GPT-4, can benefit economists....
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Is the mortgage interest deduction a good idea? - Marginal REVOLUTION
I usually don’t like arguments like the one that follows, as purely short-run second best considerations...
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Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Excellent Zach Mazlish tweets on the macro puzzle of our day. He concludes with: “And...
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Comayagua, Honduras - Marginal REVOLUTION
Comayagua is one of the very nicest and most classic of Central American towns. It is...
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Argentina fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
The country was not quite as rich in the early days as it is sometimes made...
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Matt Yglesias on the "soft landing" - Marginal REVOLUTION
I think that’s part of the explanation of the “soft landing.” Back during the inflationary spurt...
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Saturday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Why do women travel more than men? 2. Gates and Altman play Desert Island Discs...
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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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The economics of semaglutide - Marginal REVOLUTION
…while one would certainly like to have these drugs available to these patients, if the price...
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Economic ornithology - Marginal REVOLUTION
But a hundred years ago, birds were seen as the best remedy for the weeds and...