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Ian Smith’s memoir *Bitter Harvest: The Great Betrayal*

Yes he used to run Rhodesia, and yes it is costly to buy this book because no one wants to reprint it, for obvious reasons. 

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The Free Press is joining Paramount

Announcement here, congratulations! And from the WSJ.  And Katherine Boyle comments. The post The Free Press is joining Paramount appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source

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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 name registrations have surged from

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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