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The MR Archive! marginalrevolution.com/margi…

The MR Archive! - Marginal REVOLUTION

The Marginal Revolution archive is now live at https://marginalrevolution.com/ai-archive/. You can also find it from the “Download Full Archive” link in the left menu. The purpose of the archive is...

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Tyler Cowen’s Strongest Book Recommendations, 2003-2026 marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Tyler Cowen’s Strongest Book Recommendations, 2003-2026 - Marginal REVOLUTION

From the Archive–these posts are written by AI.  Cowen’s strongest recommendations include 1491, The Power Broker, Knausgaard’s first two My Struggle volumes, Fuchsia Dunlop’s Chinese cookbooks, and...

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Brazil's economic problems, in a nutshell marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Brazil's economic problems, in a nutshell - Marginal REVOLUTION

It would take true Milei-like ardour to slice through Brazil’s economic troubles. These are caused by a gnarly mix of high public spending, stubborn inflation and low saving. The result is a crippl...

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Frances Lee on American elections marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Frances Lee on American elections - Marginal REVOLUTION

More likely than interference with the election is that unsuccessful office-seekers will refuse to concede, claiming their opponents cheated. Nothing is more basic to democratic legitimacy than the...

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Sunday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Sunday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. A safe harbor for open source? 2. False but interesting claims about economic growth. 3. “In a calibrated model of the welfare effects of the estimated impacts of the Great Recession on consumpt...

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The Panic Patrol marginalrevolution.com/margi…

The Panic Patrol - Marginal REVOLUTION

The Panic Patrol, a division of the department of future corrections, reminds us of past panics. Here’s one case in point I wasn’t aware of:

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Facts about breastfeeding marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Facts about breastfeeding - Marginal REVOLUTION

We produce a numerical estimate of the value of unpaid breastfeeding relative to national income spanning five centuries and integrating historical and bioarchaeological data. The relative economic...

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How central bankers spend their time marginalrevolution.com/margi…

How central bankers spend their time - Marginal REVOLUTION

How leaders allocate their limited time and attention is an important question in economics. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel data set covering the daily calendars of three Federal Reserve...

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Emergent Ventures India, 20th cohort marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Emergent Ventures India, 20th cohort - Marginal REVOLUTION

Zahan Turel, a backend engineer and eighth-generation Zoroastrian priest from Surat, received a grant to digitize his community’s manuscripts and liturgical records before they are lost. Aditya...

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Econvitals marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Econvitals - Marginal REVOLUTION

From Jason Furman, it tracks economic indicators, mostly U.S.  Here is the website.  Subscribe here to briefings.  Here is a thread on the site.

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Why are cybersecurity losses not worse? marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Why are cybersecurity losses not worse? - Marginal REVOLUTION

Here’s the first part of my theory: cybercriminals are not the organized geniuses we implicitly imagine. Anyone building a criminal gang has to find candidates willing to forgo more stable opportun...

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Cybersecurity ETF marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Cybersecurity ETF - Marginal REVOLUTION

Joe Weisenthal: “The Red Line is the day that Anthropic introduced Mythos”

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I guest host an NYT podcast with Michael Kratsios, Trump science advisor marginalrevolution.com/margi…

I guest host an NYT podcast with Michael Kratsios, Trump science advisor - Marginal REVOLUTION

Here is the audio, video, and transcript.  Here is one excerpt: Cowen: Talk me out of this worry: So we agree science is an ecosystem, and there’s always a temptation to want to fund the most...

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Jackson Dahl podcasts with me and Nabeel on aesthetics marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Jackson Dahl podcasts with me and Nabeel on aesthetics - Marginal REVOLUTION

Filmed at home, this ran about two hours, and yes that is Nabeel Qureshi, with a cameo from Spinoza toward the very end.  From Jackson: Links Transcript/links Twitter Spotify Apple YouTube LinkedIn...

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Stablecoin sentences to ponder marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Stablecoin sentences to ponder - Marginal REVOLUTION

Mr Bessent’s bullishness notwithstanding, this month his department released a proposal that would treat stablecoin issuers as financial institutions for the purposes of anti-money-laundering and...

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My very charming Conversation with Craig Newmark marginalrevolution.com/margi…

My very charming Conversation with Craig Newmark - Marginal REVOLUTION

Here is the audio, video, and transcript.  Here is part of the episode summary: Tyler and Craig discuss why webpage design has gotten worse for 30 years, what Craig’s “obsessive customer service...

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Wednesday assorted links marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION

1. How to euthanise a whale. 2. Will MacAskill and Rob Wiblin podcast. 3. Citation cartels? 4. Nick Pope died too early (NYT). 5. Estimating the returns to education, adjusting for genes. 6. Profes...

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Capitalism and Modernity marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Capitalism and Modernity - Marginal REVOLUTION

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, one of the few economists in the world equally at home solving stochastic dynamic optimization problems as with  sociological theory and history, has an excellent series...

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Are we finally seeing some market clearing prices for movies? marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Are we finally seeing some market clearing prices for movies? - Marginal REVOLUTION

One of the best selling points of a night out at the movies has long been how cheap it was for two hours-plus of entertainment. Not so much when it costs $50 a ticket. That is how much Regal Cinemas...

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The economic rise of Latin America? marginalrevolution.com/margi…

The economic rise of Latin America? - Marginal REVOLUTION

When the world goes looking for shelter during an oil war, the destinations are predictable: the dollar, gold, short-term Treasuries. Nobody puts Latin American sovereign bonds on that list. Yet as...

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