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The Public Choice Outreach Conference!

The annual Public Choice Outreach Conference is a crash course in public choice. The conference is designed for undergraduates and graduates in a wide variety

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Marginal Garfield

Marginal Garfield generates an original Garfield cartoon every day based on posts from Marginal Revolution! Here is the first strip. You can guess the post.

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Physician Incomes and the Extreme Shortage of High IQ Workers

Physician incomes are extraordinarily high in the United States. A new NBER paper finds that U.S. physicians earn roughly two to four times as much

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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