~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (567)
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What I've been reading - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Hannah Ritchie, Not the End of the World: How We Can be the First Generation...
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Who feels the pinch of status competition? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is one interesting hypothesis: Despite the persistence of anti-Black racism, White Americans report feeling worse...
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Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Are some Latin American countries “quiet quitting” the war on drugs? 2. “We find that...
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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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Brazil fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
Brazil’s productivity — the output per hour worked, crucial to raising a nation’s prosperity — grew...
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Open AI will partner with Arizona State University - Marginal REVOLUTION
OpenAI on Thursday announced its first partnership with a higher education institution. Starting in February, Arizona...
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Meta, the forward march of progress - Marginal REVOLUTION
Just in case you don't want to click over to the other sites, Big Zuck update...
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Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Why doesn’t the Davos set sound more intelligent? (Only a partial diagnosis) 2. New and...
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No One's Name Was Changed at Ellis Island - Marginal REVOLUTION
No one’s family name was changed, altered, shortened, butchered, or “written down wrong” at Ellis Island...
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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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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...