ECONOMY

The ai Boom

The tiny country of Anguilla (pop 15,000) has an official country top-level domain code for the internet of .ai. Domain…

6 months ago

AI and the FDA

Dean Ball has an excellent survey of the AI landscape and policy that includes this: The speed of drug development…

7 months ago

My excellent Conversation with David Commins

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf are the topics, here is the audio, video, and transcript.  Here is the episode summary:…

7 months ago

Is it the phones?

Or perhaps we should just credit Sydney Sweeney?  That is from Chris Said. The post Is it the phones? appeared…

7 months ago

The British War on Slavery

In August of 1833 the British passed legislation abolishing slavery within the British Empire and putting more than 800,000 enslaved…

7 months ago

Housing 101

John Arnold points us to this table on new apartments and pointedly notes that the population of LA (18.5 m)…

7 months ago

Moving on Up

James Heckman and Sadegh Eshaghnia have launched a broadside in the WSJ against the Chetty-Hendren paper The Impacts of Neighborhoods…

7 months ago

Resources for Teaching Tariffs

Trump has put tariffs on the economics agenda in a way that hasn’t been true for decades. As a new…

8 months ago

Singapore’s Pay Model Isn’t India’s: Market Wages vs. Civil-Service Rents

In my post How High Government Pay Wastes Talent and Drains Productivity I pointed to evidence that high government compensation…

8 months ago

The Danger from Japan

Answer: America won. Every generation launches a new competitor to America and the people who don’t like capitalism and America’s…

8 months ago