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South African safari photo by Holly Cowen

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Monday assorted links

1. What people get wrong about women’s rights (Alice Evans, The Economist). 2. The case against liberal interventionism. 3. More government by GPT (NYT). 4.

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Democracy continues

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Saturday assorted links

1. Notes on Oman. 2. Colin McGinn on best philosopher ever. 3. Owner wants to give away Green Mountain Campus. 4. More on rising tensions

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Germany projection of the day

Germany’s population is projected to shrink by nearly 5 per cent within 25 years — a significantly steeper decline than previously forecast, according to an

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Minimum wage hikes and robots

This paper studies how minimum wage policy affects firms’ adoption of automation technologies. Using both state-level measures of robot exposure and novel plant-level data on

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That Was Then/This is Now

Hat tip: Logan Dobson. The post That Was Then/This is Now appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link

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Effective tax rates for billionaires

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*You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition*

By Bryan Caplan, now on sale.  From Bryan’s Substack: My latest book of essays, You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition, flips

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Fear of larger wars in East Africa

This is one of my major worries for 2026 and beyond.  The ethnic and tribal conflict in Ethiopia is not finished, and it killed 700,000