~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (170)
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No, Covid spending wasn't the only factor, but... - Marginal REVOLUTION
Barro, CPI rate correlation with covid spending in 37 countries pic.twitter.com/AD47gPTbYb — 161phi (@161phi) January 21,...
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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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Boosting fertility by subsidizing child-bearing for *young* women - Marginal REVOLUTION
From Vidya Mahambare: Several countries have grappled with a longstanding dilemma – how to reverse 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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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*The Economist* on Tatu City, Kenya - Marginal REVOLUTION
Take the pig’s ear first. Unveiled in 2008 as a $15bn smart city project, Konza Technopolis...
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My Conversation with the excellent Patrick McKenzie - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Tyler sat...
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The efficiency of counterfeiting in 19th century Peru - Marginal REVOLUTION
“The counterfeiter probably didn’t realize that that coin didn’t exist,” Dr. Ortega said. He said that...
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Hester Peirce on the SEC - Marginal REVOLUTION
As she did on the LBRY case (n.b. I was a LBRY advisor), SEC Commissioner Hester...
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Department of Uh-Oh, economic research edition - Marginal REVOLUTION
We assess statistical power and excess statistical significance among 31 leading economics general interest and field...
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Are chatbots better than we are? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Maybe so: We administer a Turing Test to AI Chatbots. We examine how Chatbots behave in...
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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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Political business cycle theory has been neutered - Marginal REVOLUTION
Probably not forever, but we are living in strange times: Now the theory needs major revision....