ECONOMY

What I’ve been reading – Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Allison Schrager is very good, including her new book Worth the Risk: The Seven Myths that Keep Us from…

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How research in math will change (from my email)

I am a mathematician…and some of your recent comments on MR about the role of AI in Econ research as…

3 days ago

Educational arbitrage?

Is it really all about the networking? Some people think so, and they are taking action: Justin Helman didn’t get his…

6 days ago

Why is America less of a 24/7 society?

It’s deeply odd to me that America is a far less 24/7 hour society today than it was 10, 20,…

1 week ago

Stanislaw Lem foresaw drones – Marginal REVOLUTION

This was published in English (and Polish) in 1986 under the title One Human Minute: So it was not humanoid…

2 weeks ago

Why drugs are here to stay (from my email)

This is anonymized, I can vouch that the person is very smart and has excellent taste: Some thoughts [referring to…

2 weeks ago

Law professors prefer AI over peer answers

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly promoted as educational tutors, yet most evaluations focus on domains with a single ground…

3 weeks ago

The political right continues to gain ground in Latin America

A leftist senator and a rightwing populist outsider who calls himself “The Tiger” will go to a run-off presidential election…

3 weeks ago

How Much Has Shale Gas Saved U.S. Consumers?

It may seem like a distant memory now, but as of the mid-2000s, U.S. natural gas production had been flat…

3 weeks ago

What I’ve been reading – Marginal REVOLUTION

1. Paul Mendes-Flohr, Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent.  A beautifully written, first-rate intellectual biography of Buber.  It…

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