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AI and the FDA

Dean Ball has an excellent survey of the AI landscape and policy that includes this: The speed of drug development will increase within a few

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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: David Commins, author of the

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Is it the phones?

Or perhaps we should just credit Sydney Sweeney?  That is from Chris Said. The post Is it the phones? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source

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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 Africans on the path to

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Housing 101

John Arnold points us to this table on new apartments and pointedly notes that the population of LA (18.5 m) is more than 7 times

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Moving on Up

James Heckman and Sadegh Eshaghnia have launched a broadside in the WSJ against the Chetty-Hendren paper The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood

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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 semester of principles of economics

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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 in poorer countries creates tremendous

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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 individualist, free market economy trumpet

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“A bunch of economists”

Here is the link. The post “A bunch of economists” appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link