~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (64)
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Why is the Biden Administration Against Fee Transparency in Education? - Marginal REVOLUTION
President Biden has made a big deal of simplifying fees: The FTC is proposing a rule that…would...
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Does the NYT not recognize child abuse? - Marginal REVOLUTION
“I have one partner now with three kids. He is transmasc, and he’s radical about the...
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Pay For Performance Increases Performance (Water Runs Downhill) - Marginal REVOLUTION
In my 2011 book, Launching the Innovation Renaissance, I wrote: At times, teacher pay in the...
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Can you guess who wrote this passage? - Marginal REVOLUTION
We often hear today that Wokeism and Political Correctness are gradually receding. Contrary to this opinion,...
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Economist Jonathan Levin is the new president of Stanford - Marginal REVOLUTION
Stanford alum, business school dean Jonathan Levin named Stanford president The post Economist Jonathan Levin is...
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My contentious Conversation with Jonathan Haidt - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the transcript, audio, and video. Here is the episode summary: But might technological advances...
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Emergent Ventures, 33rd cohort - Marginal REVOLUTION
Alex Bartik and Arpit Gupta, Chicago and NYU, to work on zoning codes, machine learning, and...
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Teaching the Super Simple Solow Model - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here’s my talk on teaching the super simple Solow model which Tyler and I present in...
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My Conversation with Fareed Zakaria - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. You can tell he knows what an interview is! ...
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Teaching the Solow Model - Marginal REVOLUTION
The Solow model is a foundational model for understanding economic growth. Yet it’s typically not taught...
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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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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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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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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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My podcast with Thomas Burnett - Marginal REVOLUTION
Thomas is at the Templeton Foundation, here is the link (with transcript), here is one bit:...
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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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My excellent Conversation with Marc Rowan - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the video, audio, and transcript, taped in his Apollo office in NYC. Here is...
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Public Choice Outreach 2024! - Marginal REVOLUTION
Please apply and send your students to the 2024 Public Choice Outreach Conference! The conference is...
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The Ability to Concentrate is Increasing?! - Marginal REVOLUTION
Distraction is everywhere. As I write this post, I pause to check twitter. Phones are omnipresent...
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Claude 3 Opus as economic analyst - Marginal REVOLUTION
Via Francis Santora, Hudson County, NJ. The post Claude 3 Opus as economic analyst appeared first...
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Swedish economists seem to be doing OK - Marginal REVOLUTION
419 Swedish economists were asked which economics concepts are most important to understand and manage economics...
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Economics graduate school bleg - Marginal REVOLUTION
What percentage of individuals attending economics graduate school — at the higher levels — have an...
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The Black-Scholes-Merton Options Pricing Equation - Marginal REVOLUTION
A superb video on the history and mathematics of options pricing from Veritasium. The post The...
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Very good sentences - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yesterday, someone asked me to elaborate on talent picking and why “narrowing the subset” matters. It’s...