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Technology Transfer and Development Economics

Willis Carrier invented modern air conditioning around 1904 but technological innovations often take a long time to travel to less developed regions of the world.

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Trump Accounts are a Big Deal

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law on July 4, 2025. It’s so big that many significant features have been little discussed.

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Amazon’s Robotic Revolution

Amazon now employs almost as many robots as humans leading to huge productivity improvements. From the second graph, “end-to-end” packages handled by Amazon rose from

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*Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future*

By Dan Wang, a great book. Here is the book’s home page.  Here is the Amazon link. The post *Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the

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Flying on Frying Oil

The ever-excellent Matt Levine points us to the amusing economic policies that connect the international jet-set to Malaysian street hawkers of fried noodles. The EU

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Of Course We Should Privatize Some Federal Land (but probably won’t)

The Federal government controls a ridiculous amount of land in the West including more than half of Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Alaska and nearly

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Some northern parts of Spain

Salamanca still feels part of the orbit of Madrid, but León does not.  Many of the faces are more Celtic, and the mood of the

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Deport Dishwashers or Solve All Murders?

I understand being concerned about illegal immigration. I definitely understand being concerned about murder, rape, and robbery. What I don’t understand is being more concerned

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Not hard to geoguess this location…

Of course it is not in the state of Virginia… The post Not hard to geoguess this location… appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link

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Why LLMs make certain mistakes

Via Nabeel Qureshi, from Claude 4 Sonnet, from this tweet. The post Why LLMs make certain mistakes appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link