ECONOMY

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…

5 months 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…

5 months 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…

5 months 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…

5 months 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…

5 months ago

India fertility facts of the day

Ten notable facts from India’s new SRS Statistical Report 2024 published two days ago: 1) India’s total fertility rate (TFR)…

5 months ago

John Burn-Murdoch on phones and fertility

From my email: Hi folks, appreciate the discussion of the piece here, as ever. I just wanted to chime in…

5 months ago

South Korea facts of the day

When I was young, the South Korean model was generally lumped in with places like Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong…

5 months ago

My excellent Conversation with Bob Spitz

Here is the audio, video, and transcript.  Here is the episode summary: Bob Spitz has written major biographies of the…

6 months ago

The interstate trade effects of autonomous trucks

Recent advances in autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle technologies promise substantial cost savings for goods shipped by truck. In this study,…

6 months ago