~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (27)
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Michael Cook on Iran - Marginal REVOLUTION
Our primary concern in this chapter will be Iran, though toward the end we will shift...
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*The Carnation Revolution* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The author is Alex Fernandes, and the subtitle is The Day Portugal’s Dictatorship Fell. A very...
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Robert Whaples reviews *GOAT* - Marginal REVOLUTION
An excellent piece, here is one excerpt I enjoyed in particular: Cowen reads the John Maynard...
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What to Watch - Marginal REVOLUTION
3 Body Problem (Netflix): Great! A captivating mix of big ideas, a compelling mystery, and spectacular...
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*Accelerating India's Development* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The author is Karthik Muralidharan, and the subtitle is A State-Led Roapmap for Effective Governance. If...
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*Nuclear War: A Scenario* - Marginal REVOLUTION
By Annie Jacobsen, a very good book. What would happen if a nuclear weapon actually were...
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*Who's Afraid of Gender?* - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the title of the new Judith Butler book, focusing mostly on trans issues. To...
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*Star Maker*, by Olaf Stapledon - Marginal REVOLUTION
Nnow though it was generally assumed in intellectual circles that the best was yet to be,...
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*Revolusi* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The subtitle is Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World, and the author is David...
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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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Daniel Gross on the printing press and GPT - Marginal REVOLUTION
In a way, everyone’s been wondering, trying to analogize ChatGPT with the printing press, but in...
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*How Life Works* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The author is Philip Ball, and the subtitle is A User’s Guide to the New Biology. ...
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What should I ask Fareed Zakaria? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is Fareed’s home page, here is Wikipedia: Fareed Rafiq Zakaria…is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and...
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How did Madrid become the capital of European liberalism? - Marginal REVOLUTION
But in the case of Madrid, the last 25 years have been a clear move towards...
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The Gershwins on free trade (that was then, this is now) - Marginal REVOLUTION
In 1927, George and Ira Gershwin put on a musical satire about trade and war entitled...
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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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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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What should I ask Benjamin Moser? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with him. Here is one outdated bit from his...
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What should I ask Marilynne Robinson? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with her. Here is from Wikipedia: Marilynne Summers Robinson (born...
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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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*You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism* - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the new book by my colleague Bryan Caplan, collected largely from his previous blog...
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What should I ask Jonathan Haidt? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes, I will be doing another Conversation with him. Here is my previous Conversation with him,...
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*Molly* - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the new book by Blake Butler, a memoir. It is no spoiler to tell...
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What I've been reading - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers, The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform...