~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (21)
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What should I ask Velina Tchakarova? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with her. She runs a geopolitics firm, hails from...
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*Shock Value: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy* - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the new and very useful book by Carola Binder, mostly a very good economic...
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Thwarted markets in everything, antiquities remain underpriced - Marginal REVOLUTION
An auction house has withdrawn 18 ancient Egyptian human skulls from sale after an MP said...
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Who was the wealthiest man in the world in the 1830s? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Wu Bingjian, better known in the west as ‘Houqua’, or sometimes ‘Howqua’, was the most successful...
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Economists' predictions from 1980 - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is the intro: Out of curiosity,...
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*Native Nations* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The author is Kathleen Duval, and the subtitle is A Millennium in North America. This is...
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What should I ask Alan Taylor? - Marginal REVOLUTION
He is one of the greatest of living American historians, here is from Wikipedia: Alan Shaw...
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What I am nostalgic about - Marginal REVOLUTION
With a group of friends I was having a chat about the merits of the current...
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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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*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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Some triumphs of 19th century liberalism - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is an outline of part of my lecture. I presented “free trade” (NB: it wasn’t...
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How good a song is Quarter to Three? - Marginal REVOLUTION
You know, the 1961 #1 hit by Gary U.S. Bonds? I’ve been thinking about this question...
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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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If econs could hoop - The New Bazaar - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is my podcast with Cardiff Garcia, now on-line and with transcript too. Cardiff proposed a...
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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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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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Economic ornithology - Marginal REVOLUTION
But a hundred years ago, birds were seen as the best remedy for the weeds and...